phone-in

1. 1.

   a program in which the audience participates by telephone

   Broadertalk show

Questions about phone-in

What does phone-in mean?

phone-in means "a program in which the audience participates by telephone".

How many syllables are in phone-in?

phone-in has 2 syllables and divides as pho-ne-in under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is phone-in a common word?

phone-in is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.