caller
\kɑ.le\
The verdict
“caller” is uncommon French (frequency #55,117 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,117
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imiter le cri d’un gibier pour l’attirer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-caller · caller · French
caller · rank #55,117 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,117
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cairn
Nearest frequency peer: cairn (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « caller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- cadastral
cadastral
44,887 corpus weight
- cadi
cadi
44,886 corpus weight
- cairn
cairn
44,885 corpus weight
- caller
caller
44,884 corpus weight
- cambouis
cambouis
44,883 corpus weight
- caractérisa…
caractérisait
44,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « caller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | caller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɑ.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,117 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « caller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
caller is uncommon French at frequency #55,117 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kɑ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
caller doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is caller, spelled C-A-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Imiter le cri d’un gibier pour l’attirer.
- 2Mener le set carré, le commenter, appeler les figures de cette danse.
- 3Appeler au téléphone, souvent dans le but de commander de la nourriture.
- 4Suivre la mise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how caller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il m’a appris à caller l’orignal.
Plus souvent qu’à son tour, le calleur va caller en anglais les figures principales de la danse et broder en français entre celles-ci.
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.
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