telemarketing
"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.
| 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) |
Where “telemarketing” sits in English frequency
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
- 1The 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.
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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.
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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.