femtocell
noun
femtocell is a noun meaning “A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-E-M-T-O-C-E-L-L, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of femtocell is femtocells.
What does femtocell mean?
noun
- 1
A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of femtocell
- femtocells plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is femtocell?
Femtocell appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does femtocell come from?
From femto- + cell.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).