Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cell-phone

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.73 in modern English

Syllables: cel-l--phone
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of cell phone.

verb

Alternative form of cellphone.

Example Sentences

"After a long day of shopping, cell-phoning and dieting, a svelte young lady of fashion likes nothing better than to sit down in front of a big plate of: (a) chopped endive, (b) steamed tofu, (c) greasy french fries."
"Personally, I almost always use a hands-free device when cell-phoning in my car."
"People just don’t yearn with such literary fervor anymore. They’re too busy cell-phoning their agents."
"“If you’re driving while cell-phoning, then your performance is going to be as poor as if you were legally drunk,” David Meyer, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, told NPR."

Inflected Forms

cell-phones (plural) cell-phones (present, singular) cell-phoning (participle, present) cell-phoned (participle, past) cell-phoned (past)

Questions

What does cell-phone mean?: Alternative form of cell phone.

How to pronounce cell-phone

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