punctuation

Other forms of punctuation

plural

punctuations·

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 punctuation

What does punctuation mean?

punctuation means "something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in punctuation?

punctuation has 4 syllables: punc-tu-a-tion. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˌpʌŋktʃuˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for punctuation?

Close synonyms include punctuation mark. 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 punctuation a common word?

punctuation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 punctuation?

133 words rhyme with punctuation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.