callout
Detailed reference entry for the English word "callout", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "callout" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "callout" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“callout” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,530 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,530
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An outgoing telephone call.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | callout |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #70,530 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “callout” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for callout is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #70,530 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for callout in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from call out. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is callout, spelled C-A-L-L-O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An outgoing telephone call.
- 2An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
- 3A meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
- 4An invitation to fight.
- 5A request for people to join or take part.
- 6A pull quote: an excerpt from an article (such as in a news magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so as to grab a reader's attention and indicate the article's topic.
- 7An annotation that pertains to a specific location in a body of text or a graphic, and that is visually linked to that location by a mark or a matching pair of marks.
- 8The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
- 9A form of verbal abuse with the intention of making the victim feel guilty.
- 10The invocation of an external third-party component.
Etymology
Deverbal from call out.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is C-A-L-L-O-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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