meetup
/ˈmitˌʌp/noun
meetup is a noun meaning “An arranged informal meeting” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-E-T-U-P and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of meetup is meetups.
What does meetup mean?
noun
- 1
An arranged informal meeting.
We had our meetup 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).
How do you pronounce meetup?
- US /ˈmitˌʌp/
Meetup has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-meetup.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of meetup
- meetups plural
- meet-up
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is meetup?
Meetup appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with meetup
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: meet-up (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does meetup come from?
Deverbal from meet up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).