Phone definition

Phone as a noun

1. electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds

   Same sense: telephone, telephone set

2. (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language

   Same sense: sound, speech sound

3. electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear

   Same sense: headphone, earpiece, earphone

Phone as a verb

4. get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone

   Same sense: call, call up, ring, telephone

Synonyms and antonyms

• telephone
• telephone set
• sound definition
• speech sound
• headphone
• earpiece
• earphone
• call definition
• call up
• ring

All synonyms of phone, sense by sense

How to say phone

Phone has 1 syllable and rhymes with own. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with phone

• own
• known
• alone
• shown
• stone
• zone
• loan
• grown
• unknown
• tone
• bone
• telephone

PHONE in word games

Scrabble

10

Words With Friends

11

Anagrams

0

Is PHONE a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check PHONE in the word checker, or unscramble PHONE to see the shorter words in its letters.