Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

php

/pˈiˈeɪtʃpˈi/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables
php
IPA
/pˈiˈeɪtʃpˈi/
10
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
3
Syllables
2
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.

Uncountable

noun

A PHP script.

Informal

Example Sentences

Etymology

Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

Usage

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Derived Forms

Phrases

PHP-FPM

Rhymes With

Questions

How do you pronounce php?
The recorded pronunciation is /pˈiˈeɪtʃpˈi/.
What does php mean?
Initialism of pseudohypoparathyroidism.
Where does php come from?
Originally an initialism of personal home page, used to describe a set of tools written by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. With the advent of PHP 3 which was no longer a limited language it was renamed to a recursive backronym: PHP: hypertext preprocessor.

How to pronounce php

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