move up

verb

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

The verdict

“move 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 put (something) higher or further.

Corpus desk

Index EN-move-up · move up · English

move 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

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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 move up
PropertyValue
Headwordmove up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “move up” in English

move 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

move up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for move up in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is move up, spelled M-O-V-E- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To put (something) higher or further.
  2. 2
    To put (something) higher or further.
  3. 3
    To put (something) higher or further.
  4. 4
    To reschedule (something) to an earlier date or time.
  5. 5
    To move higher.
  6. 6
    To move higher.
  7. 7
    To move one's position to allow others to occupy a place.
  8. 8
    To move forward (especially when waiting in a queue / line).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] Queeg was obtaining a command for which he was rather young. “They’re moving you fellows up now pretty fast.”
  2. We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought we country children would make our classmates feel inferior―and we did.

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 "move up"?
"move up" is spelled M-O-V-E- -U-P.
What does "move up" mean?
As a verb, "move up" means: To put (something) higher or further.
What language does "move up" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list