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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

supplementary plane

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables
sup-ple-men-tary -plane
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).

Inflected Forms

supplementary planes (plural)

Synonyms

astral plane

Questions

What does supplementary plane mean?
Any of the 16 Unicode planes located above Plane 0 (the BMP) and requiring the use of surrogate pairs to encode in UTF-16 (Planes 1 through 16, collectively covering the range of code points from U+10000 through U+10FFFF).

How to pronounce supplementary plane

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