heads up
"heads-up" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“heads up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Used as an informal warning, caution, or call for attention; pay attention!
Corpus desk
Index EN-heads-up · heads up · English
heads up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | heads up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “heads up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
heads up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Used as an informal warning, caution, or call for attention; pay attention!".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for heads up, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is heads up, spelled H-E-A-D-S- -U-P.
Definition
- 1Used as an informal warning, caution, or call for attention; pay attention!
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how heads up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heads up! I'm about to let go.
Heads up! The boss is coming.
Synonyms
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.