comma

Other forms of comma

plural

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about comma

What does comma mean?

comma means "a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in comma?

comma has 2 syllables: com-ma. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmə/.

What is another word for comma?

Close synonyms include comma butterfly, Polygonia comma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is comma a common word?

comma is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with comma?

1 word rhymes with comma. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.