up-to-date
/ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/
"up-to-date" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“up-to-date” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Current; recent; the latest.
Corpus desk
Index EN-up-to-date · up-to-date · English
up-to-date · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "U" 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 | up-to-date |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “up-to-date” in English
Rare enough to double-check
up-to-date is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for up-to-date in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is up-to-date, spelled U-P---T-O---D-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Current; recent; the latest.
- 2Informed about the latest news or developments; abreast.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how up-to-date appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Use an up-to-date text for your source.
Yet, in spite of this interest there has been little movement in the field of lexicography, so that Indian English has no up-to-date dictionaries to speak of, certainly nothing published in the twenty-first century.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.