go up in smoke
"go-up-in-smoke" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“go up in smoke” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To catch fire and burn.
Corpus desk
Index EN-go-up-in-smoke · go up in smoke · English
go up in smoke · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | go up in smoke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “go up in smoke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
go up in smoke is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how go up in smoke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: evaporate
When the bank refused the credit, all our plans went up in smoke.
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.