Definitions For Interrobang
Noun
INTERROBANG (plural INTERROBANGs) The nonstandard punctuation mark {{l, mul, ‽}} (a combination of {{l, mul, ?}} and {{l, mul, !}}), which may be used at the end of a sentence to express excitement or disbelief, or to indicate that it is a rhetorical question. from 1962.Alternative forms
interabangCoordinate terms
!? ?! ‽Derived terms
gnaborretniTranslations
Catalan: admirogant, m, exclarogant, m, signe d'admirogació, m, signe d'exclarogació Chinese: : Mandarin: 疑問驚嘆號 (yíwèn jīngtàn hào) Dutch: interrobang Esperanto: kridemandosigno Estonian: küsihüüumärk, interrobang Finnish: kysymys-huutomerkki French: point exclarrogatif, m German: Fragerufzeichen, n, Interrobang, n Hebrew: סִימָן תְּמִיהָה, m (simán temíhah), אִינְטֶרוֹבָּאנְגְ, m (interobáng) Hungarian: {{t-needed, hu}} Interlingua: interrobang Irish: comhartha ceiste uaillbhreasa, m Italian: punto esclarrogativo, m Japanese: 感嘆修辞疑問符 (かんたんしゅうじぎもんふ, kantan shūji gimonfu), インテロバング (interobangu) Korean: 물음느낌표, 인테러뱅 Norwegian: : Nynorsk: interrobang, m Portuguese: interrobang, m Russian: интерроба́нг, m, вопроца́тельный знак, m Spanish: interrobang, m, exclarrogativo, m Swedish: interrobang, c Ukrainian: {{t-needed, uk}} Welsh: holnod ebychol, m, fSee also
{{list:punctuation/en}}Etymology
a la:interrogātiō, t1=examination, inquiry, interrogation, questioning, bang, t2=exclamation mark, exclamation point, nocap=1, coined in a 1962 article in the journal typetalks{{cite-journal, author=martin k. speckter, title=making a new point, or, how about that …, journal=typetalks, month=march–april, year=1962}}: see {{cite-book, author=keith houston, chapter=the interrobang, title=shady characters: the secret life of punctuation, symbols & other typographical marks, location=new york, n.y., publisher={{w, w. w. norton & company}}, year=2013, pages=25–28, pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3fbwaaaaqbaj&pg=pa25, isbn=978-0-393-06442-1}}. by american advertising executive martin k. speckter (1915–1988), who invented the symbol.{{cite-journal, title=martin k. speckter, 73, creator of interrobang, url=http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/obituaries/martin-k-speckter-73-creator-of-interrobang.html, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320015031/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/16/obituaries/martin-k-speckter-73-creator-of-interrobang.html, archivedate=20 march 2016, newspaper={{w, the new york times}}, date=16 february 1988, accessdate=20 december 2016}}.Anagrams
gnaborretni {{catlangname, en, blends}} {{topics, en, Punctuation marks}}Is Interrobang a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
YES
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
YES
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
14
Words with Friends
18
The word Interrobang is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends