English hyphenation

Hyphenation of “dotcoms”

The standard US-English hyphenation shown for dotcoms is dot-coms, with 1 possible break point in this result.

US English hyphenation
dot-coms
2 segments1 break points
British English pattern result dot-coms The GB pattern set returns the same result for this word.
Worddotcoms
Hyphenationdot-coms
Break points1
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciation/dɒtˈkɒm/
Meaning & usage

What does “dotcoms” mean?

dotcoms: A company that conducts its business on the internet.

Headworddot-com
Part of speechnoun
Pronunciation/dɒtˈkɒm/
1
noun

A company that conducts its business on the internet.

Example: “tons of dot-coms went out of business”

Word breaks

How “dotcoms” is split

dot·coms

For US English, the hyphenation result is dot-coms. This gives 1 possible line-break point in the returned pattern. The British-English pattern set returns the same split.

Quick answers

Questions about “dotcoms”

How do you hyphenate “dotcoms”?

In the US-English result used here, dotcoms is hyphenated as dot-coms.

Where can “dotcoms” break at the end of a line?

The returned US pattern contains 1 possible break point.

What does “dotcoms” mean?

A company that conducts its business on the internet.

Can you use “dotcoms” in a sentence?

“tons of dot-coms went out of business”

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