telemarketing
"telemarketing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“telemarketing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,905 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,905
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-telemarketing · telemarketing · English
telemarketing · rank #53,905 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,905
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tempestuous
Nearest frequency peer: tempestuous (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “telemarketing”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Taoism
Taoism
46,099 corpus weight
- tearfully
tearfully
46,098 corpus weight
- telemarketi…
telemarketing
46,096 corpus weight
- tempestuous
tempestuous
46,095 corpus weight
- tempura
tempura
46,094 corpus weight
- Theophilus
Theophilus
46,092 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “telemarketing” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | telemarketing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #53,905 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “telemarketing” in English
Rare enough to double-check
telemarketing is uncommon English at frequency #53,905 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.".
Zero misspellings are on record for telemarketing in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of telephone + marketing. The correct English form is telemarketing, spelled T-E-L-E-M-A-R-K-E-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how telemarketing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The newspaper started a telemarketing campaign to boost its subscriptions by calling non-subscribers.
Etymology
Blend of telephone + marketing.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).