put one's hand up
"put-one-s-hand-up" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put one's hand 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
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To raise one's hand (various senses).
Corpus desk
Index EN-put-one-s-hand-up · put one's hand up · English
put one's hand up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | put one's hand up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “put one's hand up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
put one's hand up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for put one's hand up in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 put one's hand up, spelled P-U-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -H-A-N-D- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To raise one's hand (various senses).
- 2To confess or admit (to something).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how put one's hand up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
OK, I'll put my hand up to stealing the car, but not to robbing the off-licence.
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.