Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

replacement character

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English

Syllables: re-place-men-t char-ac-ter
IPA

33

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A symbol, often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark, used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to the correct symbols.

Inflected Forms

replacement characters (plural)

Questions

What does replacement character mean?: A symbol, often displayed as a black rhombus with a white question mark, used to indicate problems when a system is unable to render a stream of data to the correct symbols.

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