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touchtone

touchtone is the alternative form of touch-tone.

Meaning of touch-tone

Adjective

touch-tone (not comparable)

  1. Relating to a type of telephone with buttons, each of which produces a tone which corresponds to the relevant digit.

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Forms of touchtone

pluraltouchtones

Origin of touchtone

From touch + tone.

Questions about touchtone

What is touchtone the alternative form of?
Touchtone is the alternative form of touch-tone.

Words near touchtone in the dictionary

  1. touchscreens
  2. touchstone
  3. touchstones
  4. toucht
  5. Touchton
  6. touchtone
  7. touchtones
  8. Touchtons
  9. touchup
  10. touchups
  11. touchweight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: touchtone (page history and authors); touch-tone (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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