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standup

noun

standup is a noun meaning “Alternative form of stand-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-A-N-D-U-P and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of standup is standups.

What does standup mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of stand-up.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce standup?

    Standup has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of standup

    • standups plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is standup?

    Standup appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form in the list.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Words people confuse with standup

    Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

    Also written: stand-up (one word or two).

    Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).