work together

verb

"work-together" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“work together” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.

Corpus desk

Index EN-work-together · work together · English

work together · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "W" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for work together
PropertyValue
Headwordwork together
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “work together” in English

work togethersits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

work together is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for work together in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is work together, spelled W-O-R-K- -T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.
  2. 2
    To cooperate on a project.
  3. 3
    To function together as parts of a larger process.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how work together appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Real estate presents an ideal opportunity to work together with your spouse, if that is what you both want.
  2. In the years after Wilmington, when I had realized I needed to work, do research, and write, we were working together at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, side by side under the little green lights in the old library that so many of us loved.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "work together"?
"work together" is spelled W-O-R-K- -T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R.
What does "work together" mean?
As a verb, "work together" means: To be coworkers with someone; to share a workspace with someone.
What language does "work together" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list