call-in

1. 1.

   a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program

   Broadercall

Questions about call-in

What does call-in mean?

call-in means "a telephone call to a radio station or a television station in which the caller participates in the on-going program".

How many syllables are in call-in?

call-in has 2 syllables and divides as cal-l-in under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is call-in a common word?

call-in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.