call

\kal\

/\kal\/ noun

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The verdict

“call” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,939) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#7,939
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier juif, séparé de la ville chrétienne, en Catalogne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-call · call · French

call · rank #7,939 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,939
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH caire

Nearest frequency peer: caire (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « call »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « call » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

call vs Cl
25% similar
call vs cas
50% similar
call vs car
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for call
PropertyValue
Headwordcall
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\kal\
Letters4
Frequency rank#7,939
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « call »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.callse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « caire » (#7,938), « cia » (#7,940), « brute » (#7,937). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « call » est au #7,939. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for call is neighbouring look-alikes ("Cl", "cas", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \kal\. Frequency #7,939 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Gloss: "Quartier juif, séparé de la ville chrétienne, en Catalogne.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for call, with forms such as "acll", "ccall", and "clal". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Cl", "cas", "car", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is call, spelled C-A-L-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Quartier juif, séparé de la ville chrétienne, en Catalogne.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how call appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À la suite du terrible massacre des juifs de la péninsule ibérique, en 1391, le Call de Perpignan fut envahi, en 1392, et devint la proie du meurtre et du pillage.
  2. Ainsi le Call, inoccupé et complètement fermé sur lui-même, demeura enterré sous les couches successives de construction, sous une forme de « Belle au Bois dormant » pendant près de cinq cent ans, jusqu’à ce qu’un processus de gentrification le ramenât de nouveau à la vie.

Synonyms

ghettojuiverie

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acll
  • ccall
  • clal

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of call - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

acll2ccall1clal2
Edit distance from "call"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "call"?
"call" is spelled C-A-L-L. The IPA pronunciation is \kal\.
What does "call" mean?
As a noun, "call" means: Quartier juif, séparé de la ville chrétienne, en Catalogne.
What words are commonly confused with "call"?
"call" is commonly confused with "Cl", "cas", "car". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "call"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "call" is \kal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "call" come from?
"call" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "call", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ciné#7,941boue#7,935come#7,944fume#7,965

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list