What Does Your Phone Number Spell?

It seems that web domain names have lessened the desire for “vanity” phone numbers. You know, those phone numbers that spell out words that are easy to remember but take twice as long to dial because you have to decode them first. Your existing phone number might already have some interesting mnemonics that you can discover using PhoneSpell.

PhoneSpell.org is a free website that allows you to do many things with phone numbers. The most basic is to enter 3 to 10 digits for phone numbers. PhoneSpell will then search through its database of common words and return a variety of results that may prove to be interesting or useless.

Don’t get too excited. Some phone numbers just don’t produce good results. Some don’t produce any. Keep in mind that there are no letters for the number 1 key.

Other features of PhoneSpell:

• Enter a full phone number to see what words and phrases it spell
• Enter the start of a phone number to see what words start with those digits
• Enter some letters to  see (and even dial) the corresponding phone number

PhoneSpell has been around for many years, but I always return whenever I get a new phone number to check if I have struck gold are not. If you would like to give me a call, just dial 720-box-a-crap and leave a message.

PhoneSpell is available free here.

Add comment May 12th, 2006