combining form
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of word part; a bound morpheme; used in combination with a word, a different combining form, or an affix to form a new word.
noun
A character encoded with a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.
Example Sentences
- "Common in English, where in some putative compounds, such as autocrat or technocrat, both members would be combining forms."
- "As far as possible this specification uses non-combining characters, however, in the cases tdot, TripleDot and DotDot Unicode only has combining forms of the accents, and so the entity replacement text starts with a space, to avoid the possibility that the expansion of the entity combines with preceding text."