stress mark

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   a mark indicating the stress on a syllable

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Questions about stress mark

What does stress mark mean?

stress mark means "a mark indicating the stress on a syllable".

Is stress mark a common word?

stress mark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.