call to mind

verb

"call-to-mind" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“call to mind” 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 intentionally think about; to reflect upon.

Corpus desk

Index EN-call-to-mind · call to mind · English

call to mind · 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.

Key facts for call to mind
PropertyValue
Headwordcall to mind
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “call to mind” in English

call to mindranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

call to mind is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

call to mind doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is call to mind, spelled C-A-L-L- -T-O- -M-I-N-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    To intentionally think about; to reflect upon.
  2. 2
    To cause to think about; to evoke.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how call to mind appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […]she could take no rest: for if she waked, she began to call to minde his beautie, and thinking to beguile such thoughts with sleepe, she then dreamed of his perfection[…]
  2. And so father, calling to mind his death on the cross, and his perfect sacrifice made once for the sins of all men; and […]

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "call to mind"?
"call to mind" is spelled C-A-L-L- -T-O- -M-I-N-D.
What does "call to mind" mean?
As a verb, "call to mind" means: To intentionally think about; to reflect upon.
What language does "call to mind" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list