call in sick
"call-in-sick" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“call in sick” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To inform one's workplace or school that one temporarily cannot attend work or school due to illness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-call-in-sick · call in sick · English
call in sick · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | call in sick |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “call in sick” in English
Rare enough to double-check
call in sick is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To inform one's workplace or school that one temporarily cannot attend work or school due to illness.".
Zero misspellings are on record for call in sick in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is call in sick, spelled C-A-L-L- -I-N- -S-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1To inform one's workplace or school that one temporarily cannot attend work or school due to illness.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how call in sick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It only overloaded because of how low the power was when I fired! The guns are constantly being recharged tonight, and you should've called in sick back then!" "IT'S HARD TO CALL IN SICK WHEN ALL YOU CAN SAY IS 'MEOW'!"
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.