telex

Other forms of telex

plural

telexes·

past tense

telexed·

present participle

telexing·

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 telex

What does telex mean?

telex means "a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in telex?

telex has 2 syllables: tel-ex. The stress falls on "tel". In IPA it is /ˈtɛˌlɛks/.

What is another word for telex?

Close synonyms include teletypewriter, teleprinter, teletype machine, telex machine. 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 telex a common word?

telex is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.