Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

e-mail

/ˈiːmeɪl/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: e--mail
IPA: /ˈiːmeɪl/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of email.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

Alternative form of email.

Example Sentences

"I finally figured out what e-mail is for. it's for communicating with people you'd rather not talk to."
"She had been crushed for two whole days by an e-mail from her betrothed, which had announced that he had married a British woman."
"In a poll released last week, the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that 58 percent of drivers consider other motorists talking on a cellphone to be a very serious threat and that 87 percent consider motorists e-mailing or texting to be such a threat."

Usage

Inflected Forms

e-mails (plural) e-mails (present, singular) e-mailing (participle, present) e-mailed (participle, past) e-mailed (past)

Phrases

e-mail address e-mail list e-mailable

Synonyms

electronic mail email email message e-mail message email address e-mail address netmail

Rhymes With

female gmail email shemale

Questions

How do you pronounce e-mail?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈiːmeɪl/.
What does e-mail mean?: Alternative form of email.

How to pronounce e-mail

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