Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fencepost error

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English

Syllables
fen-ce-post er-ror
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

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What does fencepost error mean?
An off-by-one error arising from the fencepost problem.

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