hook up

verb

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"hook-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“hook 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 hook something together.

Corpus desk

Index EN-hook-up · hook up · English

hook up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 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.

Key facts for hook up
PropertyValue
Headwordhook up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hook up” sits in English frequency

hook upranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hook 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 hook up in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is hook up, spelled H-O-O-K- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To hook something together.
  2. 2
    To hook something together.
  3. 3
    To associate or socialize with someone.
  4. 4
    To associate or socialize with someone.
  5. 5
    To associate or socialize with someone.
  6. 6
    To sell or supply something.
  7. 7
    To sell or supply something.
  8. 8
    To sell or supply something.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how hook up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The suspect was hooked up to a lie detector.
  2. An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

This word in other languages

coger(Español)papillonner(Français)verkabeln(Deutsch)conectar(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hook up"?
"hook up" is spelled H-O-O-K- -U-P.
What does "hook up" mean?
As a verb, "hook up" means: To hook something together.
What language does "hook up" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list