# What Words Does My Phone Number Spell?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357 "2004-01-02T20:22:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/1 "2004-01-02T20:22:22Z")

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No. I’m not going to post my phone number here, either of them.

Does anyone know of some sort of numerical anagram machine that can give me all of the combinations of words that a phone could spell out?

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**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/2 "2004-01-02T20:25:30Z")

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I don’t recall the website, but awhile ago there was a link from the front page of [bored.com](http://bored.com) that led to a website where you could put your phone# in and it would give you all of the possible combinations made by the letters.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/3 "2004-01-02T20:26:28Z")

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[http://www.phonetic.com/](http://www.phonetic.com/)

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**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/4 "2004-01-02T20:26:35Z")

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😃 Here ya go … you can check it out at:  
[PhoneSpelling.Com](http://www.phonespelling.com)

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**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/5 "2004-01-02T20:55:31Z")

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Here’s my favorite, from [DialABC.com](http://www.dialabc.com/words/search).

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**Author:** ![Chicago\_Faucet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chicago_faucet/32/13910_2.png) [@Chicago\_Faucet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicago_Faucet)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2004, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-does-my-phone-number-spell/222357/6 "2004-01-02T22:35:13Z")

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Awright. If there are any hot, young, nubile women out there, give me a call at 978-SPIT.

Oh wait. What’s this metallic band on my finger? How curious.

_pause_

Nevermind.