Smart phone or smartphone?
smart phone is a noun meaning “Alternative form of smartphone”; smartphone is a noun meaning “A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than…”. smart phone is written as two words and smartphone as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between smart phone and smartphone?
| smart phone | smartphone | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of smartphone | A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | smartphones |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈsmɑːtfəʊn/ /ˈsmɑɹtfoʊn/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 11 times per million words |
Sources: smart phone and smartphone in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of smart phone and smartphone
smart phone
- 1
Alternative form of smartphone
smartphone
- 1
A mobile phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than a feature phone
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, smart phone or smartphone?
smart phone is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; smartphone 11 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).