freephone
noun, verb
freephone is a noun meaning “A service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-P-H-O-N-E, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does freephone mean?
noun
- 1
IrelandUKA service offering telephone calls free of charge to designated numbers.
verb
- 1
rareTo call a freephone number.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of freephone
- freephones present, singular, he/she/it
- freephoning participle, present
- freephoned participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freephone?
Freephone appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 freephone come from?
From free + phone, perhaps after the Freefone (0800 number) service introduced in 1985 in the UK.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).