hang up
"hang-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hang 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To put up to hang.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hang-up · hang up · English
hang up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hang up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hang up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for hang up in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is hang up, spelled H-A-N-G- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To put up to hang.
- 2To terminate a telephone call, originally by hanging the receiver on its hook or cradle thereby automatically disconnecting the line.
- 3To stop talking.
- 4To keep delayed, suspended, held up, or stuck.
- 5To rob or mug (someone).
- 6To arrest (someone); to send (someone) to prison.
- 7To quit (something); to give up or stop doing (something); to abandon (something).
- 8To distress, disadvantage or harm (someone).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hang up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I hung up my wash on the line.
When my mother started telling me to be careful over the phone, I threatened to hang up on her.
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.