get someone's Irish up
"get-someone-s-irish-up" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“get someone's Irish up” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 22
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To anger or annoy someone.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | get someone's Irish up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 22 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “get someone's Irish up” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for get someone's Irish up is 22 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To anger or annoy someone.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for get someone's Irish up, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a supposed propensity of Irish people to be easily and severely angered. The correct English form is get someone's Irish up, spelled G-E-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -I-R-I-S-H- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To anger or annoy someone.
Etymology
From a supposed propensity of Irish people to be easily and severely angered.
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.
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Using “get someone's Irish up”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-E-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -I-R-I-S-H- -U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.