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電話 is an exact match with one form of the following word:
電話
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Reading : でんわ   
1. telephone call; phone call
2. telephone (device); phone  (see also: 電話機; abbreviation)
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 1 (among the 500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 206,303 which gives a rank of 42
電話 is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 1,000 (about 1,020,000,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N5 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 448 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 919
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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Example sentences:
あした
明日
あさ
かいしゃ
会社
でんわ
電話
して
ください
Call me at the office tomorrow morning.
おや
でんわ
電話
したい
です
I'd like to call my parents.
でんわ
電話
してもらえません

May I use your phone?
でんわ
BOOST
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 88,000 (about 2,620,000 results)
• One of the 1240 words included in the Genki textbooks
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 1 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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デン    electricity   
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electricity
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second   おつ    
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
フ   あめ rain   
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ワ   はな to talk   はなし talking   
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ゼツ   した tongue   
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セン   1000; thousand   ち 1000   
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katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
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イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
stick   
コウ   ク   くち mouth   
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ゲン   ゴン   say; word   こと word, saying   い to say   
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