Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

non-spacing

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.41 in modern English

Syllables
non-s-pac-ing
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a character: combined with another and so not consuming additional horizontal space.

Etymology

From non- + spacing.

Inflected Forms

nonspacing (alternative)

Phrases

non-spacing character nonspacing character non-spacing diacritic nonspacing diacritic non-spacing mark nonspacing mark

Questions

What does non-spacing mean?
Of a character: combined with another and so not consuming additional horizontal space.
Where does non-spacing come from?
From non- + spacing.

How to pronounce non-spacing

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