get someone's dander up
"get-someone-s-dander-up" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“get someone's dander 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
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To anger or annoy someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-get-someone-s-dander-up · get someone's dander up · English
get someone's dander up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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 | get someone's dander up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “get someone's dander up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
get someone's dander up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To anger or annoy someone.".
Zero misspellings are on record for get someone's dander up in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin. The correct English form is get someone's dander up, spelled G-E-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -D-A-N-D-E-R- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To anger or annoy someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how get someone's dander up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Miss Jessie ain't afeard of the great, wicked, white man heself, when she gets her dander up; […]
[…] so it wasn't to be expected that I should not feel disagreeable when the two got their dander up, and went into such a tantrum with each other.
Etymology
US mid-19th century. Uncertain origin.
Synonyms
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.