Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

syntax highlighting

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables: syn-tax high-light-ing
IPA

40

Scrabble Score

18

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Some pastebins even include syntax highlighting for common programming languages."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does syntax highlighting mean?: Highlighting of source code with color, boldfacing, etc. to indicate its syntactic structure.

How to pronounce syntax highlighting

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