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Name That Punctuation Quiz

We give you the punctuation mark, you tell us what it is called.
More generally, these are typographical symbols - not necessarily "punctuation"
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100 Recent Comments
WhatIsLove
+3
Level 63
Nov 24, 2017
Only got 36%... but at least I got guillemet so I have that going for me, which is nice.
trogon
+3
Level 43
Oct 22, 2024
I didn't know the name for it so I tried "french quotation mark" in desperation and was surprised that it worked!
Xenops
+4
Level 69
Dec 4, 2017
I couldn't spell Ampersand.
fuanacdc
+1
Level 89
Jan 9, 2018
I don't know if it is colloquial or not but I would refer to the guillemet as angle quotes.
kews
+1
Level 55
Jan 17, 2018
QM, can you add about or approximate for ~? Technically it's only a tilde if it's over a letter (I think?), which that symbol doesn't do when you type it out. Even if it is still a tilde, it's also used to say that a number you've put is approximate, not definite.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Aug 20, 2023
I don't think that's correct. The name isn't always the same as the usage.
Fryzie
+1
Level 49
Jan 17, 2018
I was that 1% who didn't get comma :/
berlinbride
+1
Level 71
Jan 17, 2018
The slash is also called a virgule. Will you accept that going forward?
frostaki
+1
Level 85
Jan 17, 2018
'virgule' is French for comma.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Jan 17, 2018
Man they have big commas!
jm
+1
Level 88
Nov 25, 2018
I learned this in school - I learned it as the / in an and/or situation. I'm probably the only one but I put virgule first before I put slash :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)
fitheach
+2
Level 58
Jan 17, 2018
The slash is also known as an oblique.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Jan 17, 2018
Or a division sign
frostaki
+4
Level 85
Jan 17, 2018
Although 'slash' is commonly used in the UK these days (mainly in the giving out of email addresses) I continue to prefer to use oblique, as 'slash' is UK English slang for urinate (as in "I need a slash"). I believe 'Solidus' is a more formal term that can also be employed.

Those of us who can remember dictation as an activity in French classes might remember "Ouvrez les guillemets" as an instruction the teacher gives when asking students to open speech marks.

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 17, 2018
Oblique will work now
Remster
+1
Level 81
Jan 19, 2018
I (a Brit) am familiar with 'solidus' too.
Trix
+2
Level 55
Jan 17, 2018
Could you please allow Asperand for 'at sign', as I think that is the correct name.
ander217
+3
Level 73
Jan 17, 2018
I had to look that up and you're correct, it is "one of the many names for the figure @". My new trivia fact for the day. Thank you, Trix.
Quizmaster
+4
Level ∞
Jan 17, 2018

It's not really standard usage. But if we are going to coin a new word for it, I prefer strudel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign

"The fact that there is no single word in English for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase[3] or Spanish and Portuguese arroba, or to coin new words such as asperand,[4] ampersat[5] and strudel,[6] but none of these has achieved wide usage."

Malbaby
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Level 70
Dec 12, 2020
The term ampersand is a corruption of 'and (&) per se and'.
creslinwest
+1
Level 73
Jan 17, 2018
I kind of feel like I shouldn't have gotten a couple because I know that a bracket and a brace are different but I still typed bracket. Also I misspelled ellipsis.
dartmoorphysics
+2
Level 28
Jan 17, 2018
The Hyphen could also be an "em dash" or possibly an "en dash"? One is longer than the other and I can't remember which. I'm sure someone in internet-land will put me right!

Good quiz, I like it when I learn stuff as well as showing off what I know!

GrammarBeane1
+3
Level 83
Mar 2, 2022
the em dash is longer! I remember because you can think of the dash being the length of that letter, so an en dash is as long as "n" and em dash is as long as "m" :-)
HemmoAU
+1
Level 57
Jan 22, 2026
AFAIK it's actually three different symbols with distinct grammatical uses:

> Hyphens tie words together eg. runner-up

> En dashes are for ranges of numbers or tying multiple words to another eg. 10–20 or New York–style

> Em dashes are for subclauses at the middle or end of a sentence, particularly when conveying a sense of interruption. eg. He was — bear with me now — the best

egoducky
+1
Level 60
Dec 28, 2025
The hyphen is shorter than either
fabulousbat86
+1
Level 21
Jan 18, 2018
FINALLY! 100%
diamadi
+2
Level 51
Jan 19, 2018
Good quiz, thank you, though (being picky here, sorry!) I don't believe they all actually qualify as punctuation. Some (the tilde) are diacritical marks dealing with pronunciation and others are editing marks. But fun nonetheless!
PitifulExcuse
+1
Level 65
Jan 31, 2024
and some are just symbols
Borgir
+1
Level 62
Jan 20, 2018
I tried "lira" first for the pound sign, as that is where the name comes from (hence the L-like shape) and it's also used for currencies named lira
Carry
+3
Level 63
Mar 15, 2019
In the Unicode standard, the symbol £ is called "pound sign" and the symbol ₤ "lira sign".
payel123
+1
Level 37
Mar 14, 2018
Why don't you include Dollars , Vertical bar , Brackets , Parentheses , percentage and Angle Brackets
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 92
Jun 17, 2018
I wrote "space" for the interrobang because that's all I see.
fish1
+1
Level 28
Sep 11, 2018
guillemets are also used in chinese. they're for names of books.
Sup2point0
+1
Level 15
Dec 13, 2018
AWESOME QUIZ! Didn't get the double pointy brackets.
azinyk
+1
Level 55
May 21, 2019
I know what an interrobang is, but I have to say that the symbol you have (at least in the font that my browser uses) doesn't look like an interrobang to me.
PatoPotato
+2
Level 55
Nov 7, 2019
Missed guillemet because I simply didn't know what it was.
Malbaby
+5
Level 70
Dec 12, 2020
Weak excuse
sumguy
+1
Level 87
Feb 8, 2020
Solidus and reverse solidus should be accepted for slash and backslash. Those are the official Unicode names for those characters (U+002F and U+005C).

In Unicode, the "Guillemet" (U+00AB) is called simply "LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK", but usually "double angle quote" is good enough.

bostjan
+1
Level 71
Feb 13, 2020
Guillemet simply means quotation mark. The two punctuation marks are completely interchangeable, although " is used primarily by English speakers.
sacheth9
+1
Level 65
Mar 12, 2020
Can you add the registered trademark symbol? (®)
GeoPhilia
+2
Level 57
May 19, 2020
Please also accept exclamatory mark
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Jul 13, 2020
Why?
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2025
Don't you mean; why!
Gwaur
+6
Level 50
Oct 21, 2020
It's weird that "curly brace" isn't accepted for {, but "curly bracket" then resolves to "brace".
sumguy
+1
Level 87
Mar 6, 2022
Indeed. You shouldn't be punished for being too specific.
Berticeman
+2
Level 33
Nov 21, 2020
Please accept exclamation mark it is what we call it here in Britain
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Nov 25, 2020
May we have "stroke" as a type-in for / please? Especially as "slash" is a bit of a neologism.
johnnyrdnck
+1
Level 48
Nov 28, 2020
i thought you write it apostrophy-
bozoclown
+1
Level 56
Dec 8, 2020
Interrobang sounds like a naughty film.
Nathaniel
+1
Level 77
Dec 11, 2020
You should accept "et" for ampersand, since it's actually a ligature of the two letters, which mean "and" in Latin.
partdavid
+1
Level 74
Aug 21, 2023
It's about the name of the mark, not its meaning. As an editor, you wouldn't tell your author "You should write out the word and here instead of using an et."
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Dec 11, 2020
yay only missed Pilcrow!
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Dec 12, 2020
I remember 'Sergeant Pilcrow'
kfroog
+2
Level 40
Dec 12, 2020
I tried "french quote" for guillemet, thinking it was a fair description.
Bonzane
+2
Level 37
Mar 18, 2021
I typed "french quotation" and it worked for me
Caro101
+1
Level 39
Dec 29, 2020
Funny how I use most of these daily but still can't recall their names!
AllOfSanMarino
+1
Level 68
Feb 12, 2021
What about * & ()?
EcceHomo
+1
Level 85
Mar 3, 2021
Dear QM, please re-name this quiz Punctuation, Diacritics and Typographical Symbols.
GlaucusExquisita
+1
Level 78
May 27, 2021
This whole time I thought that was just a cross. You're telling me it's a DAGGER!?

I guess it makes more sense why they use it for extinct species now :p

Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Nov 22, 2021
Was hoping for a backtick (`).
goofycritter
+1
Level 29
Nov 22, 2021
dagger looks like s cristian cross also I have never seen those
IkeLek
+2
Level 66
Jan 5, 2022
Why isn't "curly brace" accepted?
hahaha4315
+2
Level 61
Feb 15, 2022
as a french, i totally know what guillemet is
Jetpunkmaster000
+1
Level 49
Feb 23, 2022
I typed ampersand as and
CambodianQuizzer
+1
Level 77
Mar 2, 2022
Asterisk?
shape816
+2
Level 68
Mar 2, 2022
Interrobang sounds like a cop porn
Cordelia75
+3
Level 55
Mar 2, 2022
When I was a copy editor before widespread use of computers a forward slash was always called a virgule. According to Dictionary.com, “ Virgule definition, a short oblique stroke (/) between two words . . .”
TrueYaran
+1
Level 28
Mar 9, 2022
Never in my life have I seen an interrobang lol
MnGoblin
+1
Level 72
Jun 3, 2022
Can "Left brace" be accepted for Brace?
SoundWaves
+1
Level 46
Aug 9, 2022
Shouldn't "backward slash" be accepted for backslash?
hgost
+1
Level 45
Nov 30, 2022
surprisingly, i butchered the spelling of "elipse" and it accepted that spelling
Paulforteen
+1
Level 47
Dec 2, 2022
Whats the difference between dot and period ?
Athena14
+3
Level 19
Apr 2, 2023
Imagine typing "dot dot dot"...couldn't be me...
RabbitBoat
+2
Level 29
May 23, 2023
bro i wrote dot dot dot but it didnt work
Ampersandwich
+7
Level 61
Aug 10, 2023
The source of my username!
Dogo231
+1
Level 37
Oct 17, 2024
epic username
mooselikestoparty
+2
Level 60
Aug 18, 2023
23/24

on August 18th, 2023 I learned what a guillemet was

Aoto327
+1
Level 87
Aug 18, 2023
23/24, I only forgot caret.
Polandball6
+1
Level 47
Aug 20, 2023
Did you know the ampersand was once the 27th letter in the English Alphabet
Winnifred
+1
Level 51
Aug 20, 2023
I typed carot and got it lol
Mario2013
+1
Level 23
Oct 1, 2023
1 out of all

:(

coolboyAarav
+1
Level 37
Oct 16, 2023
This is an interrobang : ?!
TomGreene16
+1
Level 38
Oct 24, 2023
i love pilcrows so much and yet have no clue what they do
shaniquanderson
+1
Level 58
Nov 14, 2023
i had no idea what the guillemet was... i tried "double back arrow"... 😭
smoky
+2
Level 22
Nov 20, 2023
7% of people don't know what a period is? !?ξ€%♪$✕✓‽⸘?¿!
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Apr 6, 2025
Period.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2025
Not everybody is a native English speaker, many of the other symbols might have a similar name (taken from the same source/root) in other languages, but a dot is such a common symbol it is exists outside of texts as well, so it is very likely they already had a name for it in their own language.
itsrunningwind
+1
Level 70
Feb 9, 2024
Christianity Symbol for Dagger?
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2025
It is not a cross but a dagger. It might have slightly lost its shape and is less recognizable in online text, but in actual books you can still see the original shape. Mainly in non-fiction books since they tend to have more footnotes. And you have a good chance that the older the book is the fancier the shape. I can remember seeing some very fancy ones.

The Science of Discworld used a lot of footnotes and I am sure they used daggers too, though I am not sure if it was just in the scientific chapters or in the fiction chapters too.

Spoodermann
+1
Level 26
Mar 4, 2024
I kept wanting to call the ellipsis an eclipse or epilogue. And I always thought of thought of the guillemete as “Spanish quotation marks” because of my high school Spanish classes
itstaken1
+1
Level 23
Dec 18, 2024
You should accept "dot dot dot".
itstaken1
+1
Level 23
Dec 18, 2024
You should accept "dot dot dot".
megaloceros
+1
Level 71
Feb 12, 2025
colon: dot dot

semicolon: dot comma

exclamation point: dooooooooot dot

bullet: DOT

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2025
haha, well that is pretty close to the dutch translation

Period : punt

Colon: dubbele punt

Semicolon: puntkomma

Ellipsis: puntje puntje puntje

Marks above the i and j: punt

Punt is dot or well.. point. (dubbel=double and -je is adiminutive)

Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 14, 2025
ugh first I thought of crow, tried crow(s)foot and feet, then I felt like it started with a p, somehow pilfer came to mind, but obviously that is something totally different, I had no idea I was actually so close!
Potalcium
+1
Level 28
May 16, 2025
dagger?? yeah right
Isssa
+1
Level 55
Aug 9, 2025
Tilde is wrong. That's a virgolilla.
theonlyBandit
+1
Level 37
Mar 5, 2026
the only reason i know that '...' is an ellipsis is from that youtube sound (iykyk)
GeneralZaroff
+1
Level 34
Apr 10, 2026
-10/10 quiz. Thank you for making it :)

- I was spelling it "amperstand", which is pretty close.

- Thank you for allowing "obelisk" as a synonym for "dagger"

- You should add "curly brace" as a synonym for "brace"

jjeii
+1
Level 43
May 2, 2026
No parentheses? Brackets? Asterisk? Perhaps an octothorpe, just for fun? lol
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