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meet up

verb

meet up is spelled M-E-E-T-U-P: 6 letters. People search “meet-up vs meetup” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, meet up means “To come together with (someone), often at a prearranged time and/or location” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in meet up?

Letters6: M-E-E-T-U-P
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

Words people confuse with meet up

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: meetup (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of meet up

  • meets up present, singular, he/she/it
  • meeting up participle, present
  • met up participle, past
  • meetup

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does meet up mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

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

    The next time you come to my town, we should meet up somewhere.

  2. 2

    colloquialTo meet (a person) by arrangement.

noun

as meet-up
  1. 1

    An arranged informal meeting.

    We had our meet-up in the local library, because of its central location.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Meet up in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrencontrer (intransitive: to come together with (someone)…)
Germansich treffen (intransitive: to come together with (someone)…)
Portugueseencontrar-se (intransitive: to come together with (someone)…)
Spanishquedar, encontrarse, verse, juntarse (intransitive: to come together with (someone)…), verse con, salirle al encuentro (transitive: to meet (a person) by arrangement)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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