Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

percent-encoding

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.37 in modern English

Syllables
per-cent-en-cod-ing
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A method used to encode special or reserved characters in URIs and URLs by replacing them with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits representing the character's byte value.

Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of percent-encode

Usage

Inflected Forms

percent-encodings (plural)

Phrases

percent-encode

Frequently Paired Words

percent-encode

Synonyms

URL encoding

Questions

What does percent-encoding mean?
A method used to encode special or reserved characters in URIs and URLs by replacing them with a percent sign followed by two hexadecimal digits representing the character's byte value.

How to pronounce percent-encoding

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