Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

string substitution

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables: string -sub-sti-tu-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.

noun

A mapping of letters to sets of strings, which creates a closed operation for regular and context-free languages.

Inflected Forms

string substitutions (plural)

Questions

What does string substitution mean?: The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.

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