-phone
UK/ˈfəʊ̯n//ˈfoʊ̯n/
-phone suffix: a type of sound.
Suffix
-phone
Origin of -phone
From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound, voice, speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoh₂neh₂, from *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”); related to fame and fable. Some terms ending in phone, such as textphone, are actually compounds made with phone.
Words formed from -phone
- allophone
- homophone
- monophone
- xenophone
- aerophone
- dictaphone
- earphone
- geophone
- gramophone
- headphone
- heckelphone
- hydrophone
- interphone
- megaphone
- mellophone
- metallophone
- microphone
- radiophone
- radiotelephone
- saxophone
- sousaphone
- speakerphone
- stylophone
- telephone
- vibraphone
- videophone
- xylophone
- zoomoozophone
- Afrophone
- Anglophone
- Arabophone
- aragonophone
- arameophone
- armenophone
- Asiophone
- basquephone
- Batavophone
- Dutchophone
- Netherlandophone
- Belarusophone
- Berberophone
- Bulgarophone
- Catalanophone
- celtophone
- Cymrophone
- Danophone
- Esperantophone
- etruscophone
- Europhone
- fennophone
- Finnophone
- Francophone
- Gallophone
- Gaelophone
- Hibernophone
- Germanophone
- Teutophone
- Graecophone
- Grecophone
- hellenophone
Questions about -phone
- What does -phone mean?
- -phone means a type of sound.
- What part of speech is -phone?
- -phone is a suffix.
- How do you pronounce -phone?
- -phone is pronounced /ˈfəʊ̯n/ (UK).
Words near -phone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: -phone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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