round up
verb
round up is spelled R-O-U-N-D-U-P: 7 letters. People search “round up vs roundup” about 20 times a month (Google, United States). As a verb, round up means “To collect or gather (something) together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in round up?
| Letters | 7: R-O-U-N-D-U-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | a phrase: the frequency list counts single words |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you pronounce round up?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-round_up.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with round up
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: roundup (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of round up
- rounds up present, singular, he/she/it
- rounding up participle, present
- rounded up participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does round up mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To collect or gather (something) together.
The city hall needs to round up all the wrongly parked bikes across the city.
- 2
To gather (livestock such as cattle, sheep, geese, etc.) together, such as by encircling them.
In the autumn we round up all the hill sheep and bring them down into the barn.
- 3
informalTo arrest or detain a group of people based on collective (rather than individualized) cause or suspicion, often as a form of targeted persecution.
During the Holocaust, the Nazis rounded up Jews into ghettos and concentration camps.
- 4
To round (a number) to the smallest integer that is not less than it, or to some other greater value, especially a whole number of hundreds, thousands, etc.
The total is $24,995 – let's round it up to $25,000.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Round up in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rassembler, réunir, cueillir , arrondir |
| German | zusammentreiben, zusammentrommeln , aufrunden |
| Portuguese | juntar, reunir, vaquejar , arredondar |
| Spanish | redondear |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.