pack up
"pack-up" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pack 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 give in.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pack-up · pack up · English
pack up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pack up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pack up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pack 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.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pack up, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 pack up, spelled P-A-C-K- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To give in.
- 2To clear away and place into storage.
- 3To put back together.
- 4To move one’s residence.
- 5To prepare for shipping, as a gift.
- 6To put into bags to prepare to move.
- 7To break, to cease to function.
- 8To fill a pipe with cannabis for smoking.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pack up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After 5 months in Madrid, I've decided it is time to pack up.
Pack up the crates.
This word in other languages
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.