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RTTY

/ˈɹɪti/noun

RTTY is a noun meaning “Initialism of radioteletype” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-T-T-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of RTTY is RTTYs.

What does RTTY mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of radioteletype.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce RTTY?

  • /ˈɹɪti/
  • /ˈɹəti/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of RTTY

  • RTTYs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is RTTY?

RTTY appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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).