hang together
"hang-together" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hang together” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To be connected.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hang-together · hang together · English
hang together · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "H" 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 | hang together |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hang together” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hang together is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hang together in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is hang together, spelled H-A-N-G- -T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R.
Definition
- 1To be connected.
- 2To correspond or fit well.
- 3To be in a romantic relationship.
- 4To be united in defiance.
- 5To remain united; to stand by one another.
- 6To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hang together appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]we are all of a piece; we hang together.
The story does not hang together.
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.