iPhone
/ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/noun
iPhone is spelled I-P-H-O-N-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, iPhone means “A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of iPhone is iPhones.
How many letters and syllables are in iPhone?
| Letters | 6: I-P-H-O-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 27 times per million words; the 3,422nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is iPhone?
IPhone appears 27 times per million words in written English, the 3,422nd 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).
How do you pronounce iPhone?
- US /ˈaɪˌfoʊ̯n/
IPhone has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-iPhone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of iPhone
- iPhones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does iPhone mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A smartphone of a series produced by Apple, which typically combine a camera phone, PDA, multimedia player, and wireless communication device.
His mom bought him an IPhone for his 11th birthday.
- 2
Any knockoff or similar high-end smartphone; through trademark genericization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
IPhone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense device:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does iPhone come from?
From i- + phone. Many Apple products have an i- prefix in their names.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).