beam up
"beam-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“beam up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
Corpus desk
Index EN-beam-up · beam up · English
beam up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beam up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “beam up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
beam up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for beam up in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the Star Trek franchise. The correct English form is beam up, spelled B-E-A-M- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To teleport (someone or something) using a (fictional) device, especially from the surface of a planet to an orbiting starship.
- 2To be teleported, or to teleport oneself, in this manner.
- 3To appear suddenly, as if by teleport.
- 4To get high on drugs, especially crack cocaine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how beam up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pookie: "They call it the "Enterprise Room", man, because it's for people who wanna be beamed up to Scotty."
Crack cocaine done gave straight-up pimping a nosebleed in the ghetto. 'Specially when crack hoes be trickin for two or three dollars, just to get enough to beam up, how you gon charge a John a hundred or two hundred bucks?
Etymology
From the Star Trek franchise.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.