Is TELEPHONE a word?
TELEPHONE is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words With Friends, has 9 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 60 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, TELEPHONE is a valid word.
What does telephone mean?
noun: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.
“I talked to him on the telephone”
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
TELEPHONE: word details
- Pronunciation: TEH-luh-fohn (approx., 3 syllables)
- Length: 9 letters, a long word. It is one of 41,139 9-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 14 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 16 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of telephone
Shorter words inside telephone
Words you can make from the letters of telephone.
Solve a whole rack, not just TELEPHONE
TELEPHONE is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does TELEPHONE mean?
TELEPHONE is a noun. It means: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds.
Is TELEPHONE a valid word?
Yes, TELEPHONE is a valid word. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.