Phillips
/ˈfɪlɪps/noun
Phillips is a noun meaning “A Phillips screwdriver” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-H-I-L-L-I-P-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears 11 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Phillips is Phillipses.
What does Phillips mean?
noun
- 1
A Phillips screwdriver.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Phillips?
- /ˈfɪlɪps/
Phillips 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).
Forms of Phillips
- Phillipses plural
- Philips
- Philipps
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Phillips?
Phillips appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,784th 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 Phillips come from?
From Phillip + -s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).