Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

telegraph-like

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables: tele-graph--like
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the characteristics of a telegraph.

Example Sentences

"There have also been historic examples of space weather interfering with the telegraph-like technology used for railway signalling control systems."

Etymology

From telegraph + -like.

Inflected Forms

more telegraph-like (comparative) most telegraph-like (superlative) telegraphlike (alternative)

Questions

What does telegraph-like mean?: Having the characteristics of a telegraph.
Where does telegraph-like come from?: From telegraph + -like.

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