radiophone

Questions about radiophone

What does radiophone mean?

radiophone means "a telephone that communicates by radio waves rather than along cables".

How many syllables are in radiophone?

radiophone has 4 syllables: ra-di-o-phone. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for radiophone?

Close synonyms include radiotelephone, wireless telephone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radiophone a common word?

radiophone 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.