call sign
"call-sign" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“call sign” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television station.
Corpus desk
Index EN-call-sign · call sign · English
call sign · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 sign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “call sign” in English
Rare enough to double-check
call sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for call sign in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is call sign, spelled C-A-L-L- -S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1A combination of letters and numbers used to identify a radio or television station.
- 2Any combination of characters or pronounceable words, which identifies a communication facility, a command, an authority, an activity, or a unit; used primarily for establishing and maintaining communications.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how call sign appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Charlie: I'm Charlotte Blackwood. Maverick: I'm Maverick. Charlie: Did your mother not like you? Maverick: No, it's my call sign.
Four drone operators, led by Shved, whose call sign means “the Swede” on account of his blond hair, […]
This word in other languages
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.