dot
/dɑt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.05 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
noun
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
noun
A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
noun
In musical notation, a symbol in the form of a small point placed after a note, indicating that its duration is to be augmented by 50%.
noun
One of the two symbols used in Morse code.
Example Sentences
- "a dot of colour"
- "Long stood Sir Bedivere / Revolving many memories, till the hull / Look’d one black dot against the verge of dawn / And on the mere the wailing died away."
- "THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO A VERY SMALL DOT IN A VERY BIG UNIVERSE"
- "The homepage of English Wiktionary is en.wiktionary.org. [read aloud: E-N-dot-wiktionary-dot-org]"
- "The alphabetical signals are made up of combinations of dots and of lines of different lengths."
- "a dot of a child"
Etymology
From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɑt/
- British English: /dɒt/