dot
A small, round spot.
Noun 4 meanings
A small, round spot.
“a dot of colour”
A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.
A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
A symbol used for separating the fractional part of a decimal number from the whole part, for indicating multiplication or a scalar product, or for various other purposes.
Etymology
From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).
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DOT at a glance
DOT has 3 letters and scores 4 points in Scrabble (D 2 + O 1 + T 1) and 4 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,462 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dot
All rhymes- PERIDOT10
- MICRODOT13
- NANODOT8
- AGGADOT10
- BIODOT9
- HAGGADOT14
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