EN

Synonyms for dot

  • noun

Most common

dab speck fleck speckle acid zen shotty blob

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Speck — anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen

speck, speckle, sprinkle, dash, fleck, spot, dab, drop, atom, tittle, bit, particle, iota, trace, molecule, pinch, mote, grain, jot, mite, itsy-bitsy, smidge

2. Zen

zen, acid, dose, pane, superman

3. Shotty — clipping of dotty (“shotgun”)

shotty, broom, bruck back, scattergun

4. Point — A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a…

point, full-stop informal, period US

Other

can, blob, decimal point, ben, dit, dowry, slammer

Antonyms

oodles

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Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence or an abbreviated part of a word; a full stop; a period.

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  2. n. 2

    Anything small and like a speck comparatively; a small portion or specimen.

  3. n. 3

    A small, round spot.

  4. n. 4

    A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.

Related words

Phrases
on the dot middle dot dot down dot product raised dot dot dot dot centered dot space dot

Forms

Plural
dots → specks, speckles, sprinkles, dashes…

Example sentences

  • dab Kansas is smack dab in the middle of the US.
  • speck There wasn't even a speck of dust on the table.
  • fleck There was a fleck of dust on the windshield.
  • acid Acid rain in drinking water affects human health.
  • zen He translated this piece of writing on Zen Buddhism.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
dotrising
dabrising
speckrising
flecksteady
specklerising
acidfalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
can1, bit1, ben1, zen1, dab1, jot1, dit
4 letters
drop1, spot1, acid2, dose1, dash1, atom2, mite1, pane1, blob1, iota3, mote1
5 letters
point1, trace1, grain1, pinch1, broom1, dowry2, speck1, fleck1
6 letters
period3, tittle2, smidge, shotty
7 letters
slammer2, speckle2
8 letters
superman3, particle3, molecule3, sprinkle2
10 letters
scattergun

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (acid2 = 2 syllables).