video call
"video-call" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“video call” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A live audiovisual telecommunication; a phone call with video; a video chat.
Corpus desk
Index EN-video-call · video call · English
video call · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | video call |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “video call” in English
Rare enough to double-check
video call is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A live audiovisual telecommunication; a phone call with video; a video chat.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for video call, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is video call, spelled V-I-D-E-O- -C-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1A live audiovisual telecommunication; a phone call with video; a video chat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how video call appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Research is already suggesting that people find video calls "exhausting", because the unavoidable technological delay in a conversation is unsettling. You can't judge facial expressions, body language and responses as accurately when they are not instantaneous, even if you don't consciously realise it.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.