call to account
"call-to-account" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“call to account” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-call-to-account · call to account · English
call to account · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 to account |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “call to account” in English
Rare enough to double-check
call to account is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.".
Zero misspellings are on record for call to account in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is call to account, spelled C-A-L-L- -T-O- -A-C-C-O-U-N-T.
Definition
- 1To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how call to account appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
TravelWatch SouthWest Chairman Chris Irwin said: "This is intolerable. The South West deserves levelling up, not running down. SWR and its sponsors in the Department of Transport must be called to account."
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.