Tone

//toʊn//

Word Type

Noun
Verb
Proper Noun
Pronoun

The word "tone" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and pronoun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

Bradford-on-Tone Shepard tone Tartini tone allotone betone betone checked tone combination tone comfort tone contour tone demitone departing tone dial tone dialling tone ditone downtone dual tone multi-frequency duotone eigentone engaged tone entering tone escape tone falling tone flexatone floating tone fuzz tone fuzztone gammatone goldtone half tone half-tone halftone hemitonic intertone jewel tone leading tone level tone meantone microtone middletone midtone mistone mosstone multitone muscle tone neighbor tone neutral tone non-harmonic tone oblique tone overtone paratone passing tone pentatone polytone quadtone quarter tone quarter-tone realtone reorder tone retone ring tone rising tone room tone screentone semitone serotonin sesquitone set the tone sidetone silvertone skintone subtone tendency tone tonable tone arm tone bar tone cluster tone color tone dialing tone dialling tone down tone hole tone in tone indicator tone mapping tone mark tone meeting tone number tone of voice tone painting tone poem tone police tone policing tone sandhi tone scale tone tag tone terracing tone up tone with tone-bearing unit tone-deafly tonearm tonebar toned toneless tonelike tonepad toner tonewheel tonewood toney tonification tonify tonology tonous tony touch-tone touch-tone dialing touch-tone dialling touchtone tri-tone tritone truetone twelve-tone twelve-tone technique two-tone undertone video dial tone whole-tone scale wolf tone

Etymologically Related To

ton tonus tother

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.