email Lexical Profile
email Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A digital message or document sent over a computer network.
"She received hundreds of emails while she was away on vacation."
A system for sending and receiving messages electronically over a computer network.
"I will send the signed contract to you via email this afternoon."
• verb
To send a digital message or document to someone using an electronic mail system.
"Please email me the final version of the presentation before the meeting."
Word Nuance & Usage
Historically stylized as 'e-mail', the unhyphenated form 'email' is now the universally preferred standard. It can function as both a countable noun (referring to a specific message) and an uncountable noun (referring to the system of communication).
• Rhymes for email
Word Origin & Etymology
Coined in the late 1970s as a shortening of 'electronic mail', combining the prefix 'e-' with the noun 'mail'.
Usage Trend
Historical frequency of usage in published text.