Meaning
- (noun) The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
- (noun) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- (noun) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.
- (noun) A difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
- (noun) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
- (noun) In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
- (noun) A brief interval.
- (verb) To place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.
Letter breakdown
- Comma contains 5 letters: 2 vowel(s) and 3 consonant(s).
- It uses 4 unique letters.
- Estimated syllable count: 2.
- Scrabble-style letter score: 11.
Synonyms
Words from these letters
Connected words
Other 5-letter words
- abaci
- aback
- abaft
- abase
- abash
- abate
- abbey
- abbot
- abeam
- abets
- abhor
- abide
- abler
- abode
- abort
- about
- above
- abuse
Words starting with COM
- coma
- comas
- comatose
- comb
- combat
- combatant
- combatants
- combated
- combating
- combative
- combats
- combatted
- combatting
- combed
- combination
- combinations
- combine
- combined
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Words ending with MMA
Reader questions
What does Comma mean?
The punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set off parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.
How many letters are in Comma?
Comma has 5 letters.
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