telemarketing

noun

"telemarketing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“telemarketing” is uncommon English (frequency #53,905 among 27,828 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,905
frequency rank, English
27,828
“T” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.

Key facts for telemarketing
PropertyValue
Headwordtelemarketing
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Frequency rank#53,905
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “telemarketing” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). telemarketing lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

telemarketing is uncommon English at frequency #53,905 among 27,828 “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

  1. 1
    The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "telemarketing"?
"telemarketing" is spelled T-E-L-E-M-A-R-K-E-T-I-N-G.
What does "telemarketing" mean?
As a noun, "telemarketing" means: The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
What is the origin of the word "telemarketing"?
Blend of telephone + marketing. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Using “telemarketing”

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-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list