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11 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• backslash n. The punctuation mark \.
• backslash n. (Computing, rare, proscribed) Used erroneously in reference to, or in reading out, the ordinary slash…
• backslash v. (Computing, transitive) To escape (a metacharacter) by prepending a backslash that serves as an escape…

— English word, defined in German —

• backslash S. EDV:Ein Sonderzeichen: \.

— English words, defined in French —

• backslash n. (Informatique, Typographie) Barre oblique inverse, contre-oblique.
• backslash v. (Informatique, Typographie) (Plus rare) Préfixer des caractères avec des barres obliques inverses (contre-obliques)…

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• backslash s. Contrabarra.

— In German —

• Backslash S. EDV: Schrägstrich, der von oben links nach unten rechts verläuft.

— In Dutch —

• backslash n. Typografisch teken (\), in windows gebruikt om de namen van…

— In French —

• backslash n.m. (Anglicisme informatique) (Typographie) Barre oblique inverse…

— In Italian —

• backslash s. Barra inversa.

23 English words from 3 English definitions

backslash Computing erroneously escape in␣reference␣to mark metacharacter ordinary out prepending proscribed punctuation punctuation␣mark rare reading reading␣out reference serves slash that the transitive Used

15 English words from 8 foreign definitions

Barra Barre barres der des EDV inverse inverses links oblique obliques Plus rare van windows

25 foreign words from 8 foreign definitions

Anglicisme avec Barre␣oblique Barre␣oblique␣inverse barres␣obliques caractères contre contre-oblique Ein gebruikt informatique inversa nach namen oben Préfixer rechts Schrägstrich Sonderzeichen teken Typografisch Typographie unten verläuft von

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

backslashed backslashes backslashing

23 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ack ACK acks ACKs ash Ash bac BAC -bac- back Back back- backs Cks CKs las LAs lash Lash LASH SLA SLAs slash

20 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

als Als ALs ALS al's cab Cab CAB Hsa. sal Sal SAL -sal sal- -sal- sals sALS SALs SALS SKCA

5 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

backlashes backsplash black␣ashes flashbacks splashback

5 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

backlash black␣ash hacklabs Kalbachs lash␣back

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

backclash backflash

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

backlash

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

backsplash

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