called
/kɔːld/adjective, verb
called is spelled C-A-L-L-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is calld: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 64 of all searches for the word. Called is an adjective meaning “Having been called”.
How many letters and syllables are in called?
| Letters | 6: C-A-L-L-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 389 times per million words; the 233rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, calld, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell called?
Called is spelled C-A-L-L-E-D. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 43 of the searches for called in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is called?
Called appears 389 times per million words in written English, the 233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce called?
- UK /kɔːld/
- UK [kʰoɫd]
- /qʰud/
Called has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-called.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with called?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as called from its last stressed vowel (/ɔld/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does called mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having been called.
a called strike
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of call
Near-synonym: named (verb)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).