meetup
"meetup" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meetup” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,332. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,332
- frequency rank, English
- 36,575
- “M” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An arranged informal meeting.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meetup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “meetup” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around meetup, anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,332 among 36,575 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An arranged informal meeting.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for meetup, with forms such as "emetup", "meetpu", and "meettup". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "meet", "meets", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from meet up. The correct English form is meetup, spelled M-E-E-T-U-P.
Definition
- 1An arranged informal meeting.
Etymology
Deverbal from meet up.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emetup
- meetpu
- meettup
- meetupp
- meeutp
- meteup
- metup
- mmeetup
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of meetup - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “meetup”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is M-E-E-T-U-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “meet” - see the side-by-side comparison. meetup vs meet
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.