What is an accidental call placed on your phone called in your part of the country?

A butt call. Obviously. North Eastern US

Butt Dial (Atlanta, GA)

Butt dial (Wash DC)

I call it a pocket dial. (NJ)

Wrong number – if it is on the land line.
Butt dialed – if it is on a cell phone.
(Western NY)

Any of the above answers: Butt Dial, Butt Call, Mistake, Pocket Call, whatever works at the time.

Booty call would be okay too.

Either. (NorCal)

We also call a misdialed call on a cell phone “fat fingered”.

@LuckyGuy I usually use fat finger in relation to texts.

@fluthernutter That works too.

An egregious mistake. just kidding
Butt call – Illinois.

Hosentaschenanruf (Germany)

@longgone – translate, please

^^ Pocket call

Pocket dial.

Butt dial – North Carolina

They use both here in Kansas, but I prefer “pocket dial.” “Butt dial” just sounds so crass to me.

I like @Adirondackwannabe‘s “Booty call,” though! :D But I won’t use it. I just thought it was funny.

@Dutchess_III You know @Adirondackwannabe was just kidding.

Of course I know he was kidding! But it was a good play. ;)

It’s a pocket dial in Australia.

I never kid about booty! :)

Pocket dial here. Midwest.

@elbanditoroso @gailcalled is close. Literally, it’d be “Pants-pocket-call”.

Wrong number (NZ)

Wrong number if it’s the home phone, butt dial if it’s a cellphone. – Oregon

I love it when someone calls a wrong number, ends up with you, then gets pissy and mad like it’s your fault!

butt dial-Chicago

@Dutchess_III How weird. People that pocket-dial me are never anything but politely apologetic.

Most people are, but there are always some jerks you know. The kind who think everything is somebody elses fault.

Most people that butt-dial me have their phones in their butt-pockets. Sometimes they are not aware of it for hours!

Oh, I hated it when the kids were teenagers and I’d get one of those calls. The paranoid Mom in me is going, “My baby has been kidnapped and is trying to ask for help, but she can’t talk because the kidnappers are right there!”

@Dutchess_III That may be true.