telephoner

Questions about telephoner

What does telephoner mean?

telephoner means "the person initiating a telephone call".

How many syllables are in telephoner?

telephoner has 4 syllables and divides as te-le-pho-ner 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.

What is another word for telephoner?

Close synonyms include caller, caller-up, phoner. 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 telephoner a common word?

telephoner 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.