Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

suspended hyphen

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

Syllables
sus-pend-ed hy-phen
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of hyphen used to represent omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list.

Inflected Forms

suspended hyphens (plural)

Synonyms

dangling hyphen floating hyphen hanging hyphen suspension hyphen suspensive hyphen

Questions

What does suspended hyphen mean?
A type of hyphen used to represent omission of repeated parts of compound words in a list.

How to pronounce suspended hyphen

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