A dash is a punctuation mark. It is longer than a hyphen and is used differently. Common dashes There are several forms of dash, of which the most common are: Hyphen The hyphen is used both to join words and to separate syllables. Strictly speaking, the hyphen is not a dash at all; thus, careful typesetting (including with modern computer applications, such as word processors and HTML) relies on the following proper dashes instead. Figure dash The figure dash is so named because it is the same width as a digit, at least in typefaces with digits of equal width. The figure dash is used when a dash must be used within numbers, for example with telephone numbers: 8675309. This does not indicate a range (en dash is used for that), or function as the minus sign (which has its own glyph). The figure dash is often unavailable; in

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