take to the streets
"take-to-the-streets" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“take to the streets” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To gather together in the public streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or opposition.
Corpus desk
Index EN-take-to-the-streets · take to the streets · English
take to the streets · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | take to the streets |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “take to the streets” in English
Rare enough to double-check
take to the streets is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
take to the streets has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is take to the streets, spelled T-A-K-E- -T-O- -T-H-E- -S-T-R-E-E-T-S.
Definition
- 1To gather together in the public streets of a town or city to show communal solidarity in either celebration or opposition.
- 2To rampage or riot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how take to the streets appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But for the first time, the lese-majesty law was discussed substantially […] It follows an unprecedented youth movement that took to the streets in 2020 to challenge that law and to call for the royal budget to be reduced and its political influence curbed.
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.