videotex
noun
videotex is a noun meaning “Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-D-E-O-T-E-X and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of videotex is videotexes.
What does videotex mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce videotex?
Videotex 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 videotex
- videotexes plural
- videotext
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is videotex?
Videotex appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd 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).
How do you abbreviate videotex?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of videotex: VTX.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does videotex come from?
From video + text.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).