Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bigophone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bigo-phone
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo

Example Sentences

"Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects."

Etymology

From Bigot + -phone (after its French inventor Romain Bigot).

Word Breakdown

Suffix: Bigot

Inflected Forms

bigophones (plural)

Questions

What does bigophone mean?: Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo
Where does bigophone come from?: From Bigot + -phone (after its French inventor Romain Bigot).

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