up front
adjective, adverb
up front is spelled U-P-F-R-O-N-T: 7 letters. People search “up-front vs upfront” about 110 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, up front means “Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in up front?
| Letters | 7: U-P-F-R-O-N-T |
|---|---|
| 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 up front?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-up_front.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with up front
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: upfront (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What does up front mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful.
I will be up front with you: what you are asking may be costly and difficult.
adverb
- 1
At the beginning; before anything begins.
If we settle on the terms of the deal up front there will be much less arguing later.
- 2
At the front.
If you don't have anything to do up front, help organize the boxes in back.
- 3
In attacking positions.
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of upfront.
adverb
- 1
Alternative spelling of upfront.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Up front in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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.