telephone number
"telephone-number" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telephone number” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telephone number |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telephone number” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
telephone number is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for telephone number in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is telephone number, spelled T-E-L-E-P-H-O-N-E- -N-U-M-B-E-R.
Definition
- 1The sequence of digits used to identify a particular destination telephone in a network.
- 2A large number.
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 “telephone number”
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- -N-U-M-B-E-R - 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.