"telephoned" is a correct and common word in written English.
It is the past tense form of the verb "telephone," meaning to make a phone call. Example: "I telephoned my mother to wish her a happy birthday."
At 5.00am, an hour before the formal declaration that the United Kingdom – and the prime minister's job – had been saved, Darling telephoned Cameron to warn him against using the moment of victory to demand English votes for English laws at Westminster.
The roar of the Liberal crowd drowned Kevin Rudd's words: "A short time ago I telephoned Tony Abbott … " The victory party at the Four Seasons in Sydney erupted.
Tsipras, meanwhile, telephoned the French president, François Hollande, and spoke more than once to the head of the European commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
On this January morning, with Marr's fate poised on a knife edge, the family had telephoned for an ambulance.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said he could not confirm whether celebrities and cabinet ministers were involved in the police investigation, but said many famous people telephoned the royal household.
Within minutes of his statement, an angry Gordon Brown telephoned the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to warn that a heavy price would be paid by the UK parties for what he regarded as a partisan attempt to court votes in England.
She then got off the bus and telephoned police.
The pop charts began in postwar Britain when Percy Dickins of the New Musical Express telephoned 20-odd shops asking for a list of their bestsellers.
Within minutes of Cameron's announcement, Gordon Brown, who had done more than any other figure to save the job of his successor, telephoned the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to express his dismay.
Osborne telephoned Balls on the eve of his speech to confirm that an unmistakable joint message would be delivered by the Treasury spokesmen for the three main UK parties.
He describes how he was telephoned by a company in Texas that was fighting the SEC and its auditors.
