eat up

verb

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"eat-up" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“eat 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
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To consume completely.

Corpus desk

Index EN-eat-up · eat up · English

eat up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for eat up
PropertyValue
Headwordeat up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “eat up” in English

eat upfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

eat up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for eat up, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is eat up, spelled E-A-T- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To consume completely.
  2. 2
    To cause (someone) to obsess; to figuratively consume (someone).
  3. 3
    To subtract, use up.
  4. 4
    To accept or believe entirely, immediately, and without questioning.
  5. 5
    To acclaim or praise (someone or something); to consume (absorb information).
  6. 6
    To find something to be very cute.
  7. 7
    To go quickly on a route.
  8. 8
    To be very good at; to succeed at; to smash. (Compare eat and leave no crumbs.)
  9. 9
    To completely dominate someone else, especially with a comeback or clapback.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how eat up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He was so hungry that he ate up everything on his plate.
  2. Dinner is served. Eat up!

This word in other languages

comerse(Español)dévorer(Français)aufessen(Deutsch)engolir(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "eat up"?
"eat up" is spelled E-A-T- -U-P.
What does "eat up" mean?
As a verb, "eat up" means: To consume completely.
What language does "eat up" come from?
"eat up" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list