telegraph

Other forms of telegraph

plural

telegraphs·

past tense

telegraphed·

present participle

telegraphing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about telegraph

What does telegraph mean?

telegraph means "apparatus used to communicate at a distance over a wire (usually in Morse code)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in telegraph?

telegraph has 3 syllables: tel-e-graph. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæf/.

What is another word for telegraph?

Close synonyms include telegraphy, cable, wire. 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 telegraph a common word?

telegraph is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with telegraph?

14 words rhyme with telegraph. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.