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telephone

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Is telephone a Scrabble word?

Yes, telephone is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 14 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of telephone?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (countable, telephony) A telecommunication device (originally mechanical, and now electronic) used for two-way talking with another person (now often shortened to phone).Synonyms: blower, phone, Ameche, dog and bone, horn, pipe, phone, telephonecountable

2. (countable, historical) The receiver of such a device.countablehistorical

3. (Canada, US, uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.Examples: "And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain."CanadaUSuncountable

4. (Canada, US, uncountable, figuratively) Chinese whispers; a situation in which an initial message has been distorted and misunderstood by being passed from person to person.Examples: "In other words, Jones' career and life may have been derailed because a game of telephone went bad."CanadaUSfigurativelyuncountable

verb (English)

1. (ambitransitive) To (attempt to) contact someone using a telephone.Examples: "“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”"; "Having completed their task, Fireman Page telephoned from a lineside box to the next signal cabin, briefly reported the incident and said that, as no high explosive had dropped and the track was safe, they proposed proceeding "at caution"."; "The length ganger saw the train passing with the van derailed and promptly telephoned the Sandbach signalman, who restored his signals to danger, but not in time to stop the train before the final derailment occurred."ambitransitive

2. (transitive) To convey (a message) via telephone.Examples: "He telephoned what he knew to his chief[.]"; "David telephoned his apologies to his mother."transitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "telephone"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "telephone"?

Scrabble
14 points
T1
E1
L1
E1
P3
H4
O1
N1
E1
Words With Friends
16 points
T1
E1
L2
E1
P4
H3
O1
N2
E1

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