Grave accent

Also called backtick or backquote.

How to type it

Left pinky.

Common uses

• Over a vowel, the grave accent marks the stress or sound in words like the French è and the Italian città.
• On US keyboards it shares a key with the tilde, in the top-left corner.

Less common uses

• In Markdown, text wrapped in backticks is formatted as code.
• Older shell scripts use backticks around a command to substitute its output into another command.
• Programmers usually call it a backtick, since it rarely appears over a letter in code.