Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

punycode

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: pun-y-code
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.

Example Sentences

"Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)."

Etymology

Blend of puny + Unicode.

Questions

What does punycode mean?: A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.
Where does punycode come from?: Blend of puny + Unicode.

How to pronounce punycode

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