Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

windows-1252

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: win-dows-1252
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.

Inflected Forms

CP-1252 (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

ASCII ANSEL

Questions

What does windows-1252 mean?: A single-byte character encoding of the Latin alphabet that was used by default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages.

How to pronounce windows-1252

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