meet up

verb

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

The verdict

“meet 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 come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.

Corpus desk

Index EN-meet-up · meet up · English

meet 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 "M" 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 meet up
PropertyValue
Headwordmeet up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “meet up” in English

meet 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

meet up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for meet up, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

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 meet up, spelled M-E-E-T- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.
  2. 2
    To meet (a person) by arrangement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. The next time you come to my town, we should meet up somewhere.
  2. Amy told me that she's gonna meet me up

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "meet up"?
"meet up" is spelled M-E-E-T- -U-P.
What does "meet up" mean?
As a verb, "meet up" means: To come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location.
What language does "meet up" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list