Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

numbers station

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English

Syllables: num-ber-s s-ta-tion
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.

Example Sentences

"The most common numbers station features a young lady reading the numbers in Spanish. Other stations have both male and female voices reading numbers in Spanish, German, English and Chinese. So far, nobody has been able to decode any of the messages!"
"Naturally enough, no government has actually admitted to operating a numbers station, but the suspicion is there."

Inflected Forms

numbers stations (plural)

Questions

What does numbers station mean?: A shortwave radio station characterized by unusual broadcasts, often of artificially generated voices reciting streams of numbers, words, etc., supposedly of coded messages.

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