telephone book
"telephone-book" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telephone book” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A printed telephone directory.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telephone book |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telephone book” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
telephone book is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A printed telephone directory.".
Zero misspellings are on record for telephone book in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is telephone book, spelled T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E- -B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A printed telephone directory.
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 “telephone book”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E- -B-O-O-K - 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.