go up in smoke
"go-up-in-smoke" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“go up in smoke” 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
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To catch fire and burn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | go up in smoke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “go up in smoke” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for go up in smoke is 14 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. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for go up in smoke, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is go up in smoke, spelled G-O- -U-P- -I-N- -S-M-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1To catch fire and burn.
- 2To be completely ruined, devastated, or reduced to nothingness.
This word in other languages
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 “go up in smoke”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is G-O- -U-P- -I-N- -S-M-O-K-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.