Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

electronic mail

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: elec-tron-ic -mail
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Email (the system).

Uncountable

noun

Countable

Example Sentences

"Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today."
"[…] the impossibility of representing such noises [‘mumble’, ‘sigh’, and ‘groan’] on a comm link or in electronic mail […]"
"Employees are asked to exercise extreme caution when opening electronic mails and attachments sent by unknown or unfamiliar correspondents, or which require the recipient to execute a program, open an attachment or decompress an archive such as a Winzip™ file."

Usage

Inflected Forms

electronic mails (plural)

Derived Forms

email

Phrases

e-mail

Synonyms

e-mail email

Questions

What does electronic mail mean?: Email (the system).

How to pronounce electronic mail

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