Recall is the process of re-accessing a sensory experience or events which an individual would have confronted in the past. In lay man terms it is referred to as remembering. Recall abilities are influenced by many subject related, stimulus related and linguistic related variables. Not many researchers have investigated the influence of linguistic variables on recall. 30 participants in the age range of 18-25 years were enrolled for the study. Short words versus long words, nouns versus verbs, concrete words versus abstract words and semantically related words versus unrelated words were used as stimulus. Better performance was seen on short over long words and nouns over verbs reflecting that the syllable length and word type would influence recall. The performance was better for concrete over abstract words, semantically related word list compared to unrelated words depicting that the recall abilities would vary as a function of linguistic variables.