put up

verb

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"put-up" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“put 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
6
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To place in a high location.

Corpus desk

Index EN-put-up · put up · English

put up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" 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 put up
PropertyValue
Headwordput up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters6
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “put up” sits in English frequency

put 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

put up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 20 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for put up in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is put up, spelled P-U-T- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    To place in a high location.
  2. 2
    To hang; to mount.
  3. 3
    To style (the hair) up on the head, instead of letting it hang down.
  4. 4
    To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
  5. 5
    To store away.
  6. 6
    To house; to shelter; to take in.
  7. 7
    To stay, to sojourn (at a hotel, inn, tavern, etc.)
  8. 8
    To present, especially in "put up a fight".
  9. 9
    To endure; to put up with; to tolerate.
  10. 10
    To provide funds in advance.
  11. 11
    To build a structure.
  12. 12
    To make available; to offer.
  13. 13
    To cause (wild game) to break cover.
  14. 14
    To can (food) domestically; to preserve (meat, fruit or vegetables) by sterilizing and storing in a bottle, jar or can.
  15. 15
    To score; to accumulate scoring. Ellipsis of to put up on the scoreboard.
  16. 16
    To set (matter) in capital letters; to switch text from lowercase to capital letters.
  17. 17
    To compliment or respect (someone); to number (someone) among some greats.
  18. 18
    To kill (someone).
  19. 19
    Synonym of frame up (“falsely pin a crime on”).
  20. 20
    To inspect or plan out with a view to robbery.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Please put up your luggage in the overhead bins.
  2. Three volunteers put up their hands in response to the speaker's request.

This word in other languages

colgar(Español)placer(Français)hochstellen(Deutsch)hospedar(Português)

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 "put up"?
"put up" is spelled P-U-T- -U-P.
What does "put up" mean?
As a verb, "put up" means: To place in a high location.
What language does "put up" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list