videophone
noun
videophone is a noun meaning “A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-D-E-O-P-H-O-N-E and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of videophone is videophones.
What does videophone mean?
noun
- 1
A telephone capable of transmitting both audio and video signals in both directions.
- 2
datedA cell phone with such capability. Used to distinguish from stills-only camera cell phones and camera-less cell phones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce videophone?
Videophone has 4 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 videophone
- videophones plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is videophone?
Videophone appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).
Videophone in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense type of telephone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | visiophone |
| German | Bildtelefon |
| Portuguese | videofone |
| Spanish | videófono |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does videophone come from?
From video- + phone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).