Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

textphone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: text-phone
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A telephone with a simple keyboard and a small screen, used by the deaf.

British usage

Etymology

From text + phone.

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

textphones (plural)

Synonyms

minicom

Questions

What does textphone mean?: A telephone with a simple keyboard and a small screen, used by the deaf.
Where does textphone come from?: From text + phone.

How to pronounce textphone

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