load up

verb

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

The verdict

“load 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 fill (a vehicle, vessel, room, etc.) with a load of cargo or similar.

Corpus desk

Index EN-load-up · load up · English

load 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 "L" 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 load up
PropertyValue
Headwordload up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “load up” in English

load 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

load up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for load up, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

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 load up, spelled L-O-A-D- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To fill (a vehicle, vessel, room, etc.) with a load of cargo or similar.
  2. 2
    To load (things) as cargo or similar.
  3. 3
    To receive a load of cargo or similar.
  4. 4
    To fully load (a weapon).
  5. 5
    To load (software) fully into memory.
  6. 6
    To intoxicate oneself with alcohol or drugs; to get drunk or get high.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. We loaded up the wagon with supplies.
  2. Q: What should we do with these other boxes? A: Load 'em up, same as the others.

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 "load up"?
"load up" is spelled L-O-A-D- -U-P.
What does "load up" mean?
As a verb, "load up" means: To fill (a vehicle, vessel, room, etc.) with a load of cargo or similar.
What language does "load up" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list