close-up
/ˈkləʊsʌp/
"close-up" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“close-up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In near proximity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-close-up · close-up · English
close-up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | close-up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈkləʊsʌp/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “close-up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
close-up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈkləʊsʌp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In near proximity.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for close-up, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is close-up, spelled C-L-O-S-E---U-P.
Definition
- 1In near proximity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how close-up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop.
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.