telemarketer
"telemarketer" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telemarketer” is uncommon English (frequency #71,970 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,970
- frequency rank, English
- 27,828
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Someone who sells products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telemarketer |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #71,970 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “telemarketer” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
telemarketer is uncommon English at frequency #71,970 among 27,828 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who sells products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for telemarketer, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tele- + marketer. The correct English form is telemarketer, spelled T-E-L-E-M-A-R-K-E-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who sells products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls.
Etymology
From tele- + marketer.
This word in other languages
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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Using “telemarketer”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-E-L-E-M-A-R-K-E-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.