mobile phone
"mobile-phone" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“mobile phone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network by means of radio transmissions.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mobile phone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mobile phone” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
mobile phone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
mobile phone doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From mobile + phone. The correct English form is mobile phone, spelled M-O-B-I-L-E- -P-H-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1A portable telephone that connects with the telephone network by means of radio transmissions.
- 2A portable telephone that connects with the cellular telephone network.
Etymology
From mobile + phone.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mobile phone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-O-B-I-L-E- -P-H-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.