How to spell call

hear itcall/kɔl/verbStarter

What it means: To contact someone by phone.

In a sentence: I will call my friend to play.

The part people get wrong

Watch for double l. Often misspelled as cal or coll.

Same family: called, calling, caller, recall, telephone. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Call comes from Old English ‘ceallian,’ meaning ‘to cry out or shout.’ Over time, its meaning expanded from shouting someone’s name to naming things, and later to making telephone calls.

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