oblique dash
"oblique-dash" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“oblique dash” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
Corpus desk
Index EN-oblique-dash · oblique dash · English
oblique dash · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | oblique dash |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “oblique dash” in English
Rare enough to double-check
oblique dash is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.".
No misspelling variants are generated for oblique dash in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: A clarification of the intended sense of oblique. The correct English form is oblique dash, spelled O-B-L-I-Q-U-E- -D-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how oblique dash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
No punctuation has been inserted in the records of cases... The oblique dash in punctuation is freely used. Where it is used as a mere flourish in conjunction with other punctuation it has been ignored, where it terminates an entry the dash has been read as a full-stop, and where it occurs in the middle of an entry it has been read as a comma.
In (9.2) and in the following equations an oblique dash (/) before an index r denotes differentiation with respect to χᵣ.
Etymology
A clarification of the intended sense of oblique.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.