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callsign

noun

callsign is spelled C-A-L-L-S-I-G-N: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, callsign means “Alternative form of call sign” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of callsign is callsigns.

How many letters and syllables are in callsign?

Letters8: C-A-L-L-S-I-G-N
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 88,353rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is callsign?

Callsign appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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).

Words people confuse with callsign

Also written: call-sign (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of callsign

  • callsigns plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does callsign mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of call sign.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does callsign come from?

From call + sign.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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