meet with
"meet-with" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meet with” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To have a meeting with (someone).
Corpus desk
Index EN-meet-with · meet with · English
meet with · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meet with |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meet with” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meet with is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
meet with has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is meet with, spelled M-E-E-T- -W-I-T-H.
Definition
- 1To have a meeting with (someone).
- 2To encounter; to experience.
- 3To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
- 4To strike (something).
- 5To contact or touch (something).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meet with appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’ ‘They want what?’ ‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’ ‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.
The proposal met with stiff opposition.
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.