callout
noun
callout is spelled C-A-L-L-O-U-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “call-out vs callout” about 10 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, callout means “An outgoing telephone call” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of callout is callouts.
How many letters and syllables are in callout?
| Letters | 7: C-A-L-L-O-U-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 6 million words; the 70,702nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 common is callout?
Callout appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 70,702nd 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 callout?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-callout.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with callout
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: call-out (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with callout?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as callout.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: outcall.
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).
Forms of callout
- callouts plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does callout mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An outgoing telephone call.
- 2
An instance of being summoned to visit a certain place in order to provide assistance; an instance of summoning someone who is on call.
I had to pay for the callout of the plumber after the pipe burst.
- 3
USA meeting or rally held in order to find interested participants, e.g. for an activity or sports team.
So many people attended the basketball callout that the coach decided to form two teams.
- 4
slangAn invitation to fight.
- 5
A request for people to join or take part.
- 6
A 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.
- 7
An 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.
- 8
The act of calling out from work, i.e. announcing that one cannot attend; the act of calling in sick.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does callout come from?
Deverbal from call out.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).