Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-breaking space

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.53 in modern English

Syllables
non-break-ing s-pace
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A variant of the space character that prevents text from wrapping onto the next line at that point.

Inflected Forms

non-breaking spaces (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

em space en space thick space thin space word space zero-width space

Synonyms

NBSP no-break space hard space

Questions

What does non-breaking space mean?
A variant of the space character that prevents text from wrapping onto the next line at that point.

How to pronounce non-breaking space

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