Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phot

/foʊt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: phot
IPA: /foʊt/

9

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).

verb

Informal

Example Sentences

"They said no, so I climbed off a bridge and spent the rest of the day photting and cab-riding around BHP without permission."
"It's not an aerial one though as I havn't devved the transparency stuff yet, and I'll not get chance tommorrow^([sic]) as I'm photting the Touring Cars @ Croft."
"dog tag is hard to phot because it is so shiny."

Etymology

Coined by André Blondel in 1921. See photo-.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /foʊt/
British English: /fəʊt/

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

phots (plural) phots (present, singular) photting (participle, present) photted (participle, past) photted (past)

Derived Forms

microphot milliphot

Rhymes With

vote wrote note boat promote confidence vote quote remote coat solar boat throat goat

Questions

How do you pronounce phot?: The recorded pronunciation is /foʊt/.
What does phot mean?: A photometric unit of illuminance, or luminous flux through an area (symbol ph).
Where does phot come from?: Coined by André Blondel in 1921. See photo-.

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