put someone's back up
"put-someone-s-back-up" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“put someone's back 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
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-put-someone-s-back-up · put someone's back up · English
put someone's back up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 someone's back up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “put someone's back up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
put someone's back up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.".
No misspelling variants are generated for put someone's back up in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 put someone's back up, spelled P-U-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -B-A-C-K- -U-P.
Definition
- 1Synonym of get someone's back up: to annoy someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how put someone's back up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You really put her back up there, John.
[T]hat is exactly the kind of remark that is guaranteed to put certain masters' backs up, isn't it?
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.