Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

magnetophone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mag-ne-to-phone
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A tape recorder (device using magnetic tape as a storage medium).

Dated

noun

An electromagnetic microphone.

Dated

Etymology

From magneto- + -phone. The sense “tape recorder” is probably a semantic loan from German Magnetophon (modern spelling Magnetofon), which was initially a brand name).

Origin

Source language: German

Word Breakdown

Root: Magnetophon

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

magnetophones (plural)

Questions

What does magnetophone mean?: A tape recorder (device using magnetic tape as a storage medium).
Where does magnetophone come from?: It is traced to German.

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