Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

punctuation mark

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: punc-tu-a-tion -mark
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc., and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.

Inflected Forms

punctuation marks (plural)

Phrases

curly brackets square bracket exclamation mark fraction slash parentheses (US full stop question mark quotation marks

Frequently Paired Words

apostrophe curly brackets brace square bracket bracket colon comma dash

Synonyms

punctuation mark punctuation

Questions

What does punctuation mark mean?: Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc., and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.

How to pronounce punctuation mark

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