pull up stakes
"pull-up-stakes" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pull up stakes” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pull up stakes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pull up stakes” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for pull up stakes is 14 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pull up stakes in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is pull up stakes, spelled P-U-L-L- -U-P- -S-T-A-K-E-S.
Definition
- 1To prepare to move one's (usually temporary) habitation, especially rapidly.
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.
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Using “pull up stakes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-U-L-L- -U-P- -S-T-A-K-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.