What do you call the two dots placed above one of the letters O in some words with two succeeding letter O’s a?
What do you call the two dots placed above one of the letters O in some words with two succeeding letter O’s as in ‘cooperative’ in order for it to be pronounced co-o-pe-ra-tive rather than cuperative?
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Umlaut
They are called a 'diaeresis', and are normally placed over the second of the two O's.
A diaeresis is not quite the same thing as an umlaut, which looks the same but has a different function - it alters the sound of a single vowel in some languages (e.g. German).