facetime
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Alternative letter-case form of FaceTime.
name
A videotelephony software developed by Apple Inc., introduced in 2010.
Example Sentences
- "“I am facetiming him right now, so he heard that.” Taylor said. “Why do you hate me?” Mitch asked through Taylor's iPod and into my phone. “Whatever.” I replied and hung up."
- "Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga."
- "I gritted through a smile, grateful we weren’t Skyping or FaceTime-ing or any other electronic face messaging that was available. It was bad enough he had to hear me stumble through our phone call. I didn’t need him to see my embarrassment as well."
- "Our children are FaceTime’ing their way through Roblox playdates, they’re texting grandma and grandpa, they’re watching YouTube instead of TV, and they’re begging for too-adult apps like Snapchat – so they can play with the face filters – and Musical.ly, which has a lot of inappropriate content."
- "ON WHAT HE [Uros Plavsic] MISSES ABOUT SERBIA “Obviously my family. Food, my friends. But technology today works so good for me. Like, FaceTime’ing everybody every makes it amazing.""
- ""One night I was FaceTime'ing my girlfriend Jamie, and she told me that her school senior prom might be canceled.[…]," he [Josiah “JT” Duenas] recalled."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
facetimes (present, singular)
facetiming (participle, present)
facetimed (participle, past)
facetimed (past)
FaceTime-ing (participle, present)
FaceTime'ing (participle, present)
FaceTime'd (participle, past)
FaceTime'd (past)
FaceTime'ed (participle, past)
FaceTime'ed (past)