workup
"workup" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“workup” is uncommon English (frequency #66,412 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,412
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
Corpus desk
Index EN-workup · workup · English
workup · rank #66,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,412
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wolseley
Nearest frequency peer: Wolseley (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “workup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- willies
willies
33,594 corpus weight
- windstorm
windstorm
33,593 corpus weight
- Wolseley
Wolseley
33,590 corpus weight
- workup
workup
33,589 corpus weight
- workwear
workwear
33,588 corpus weight
- wyvern
wyvern
33,587 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “workup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | workup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “workup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
workup is uncommon English at frequency #66,412 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for workup, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from work up. The correct English form is workup, spelled W-O-R-K-U-P.
Definition
- 1A general medical examination to assess a person's health and fitness.
- 2All the additional procedures and reactions carried out after the main chemical reaction to obtain the desired product.
- 3A period of training or preparation, typically for a specific operation.
- 4Synonym of scrub baseball.
- 5An unfinished or unfinalized version; a draft, prototype.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how workup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first time I saw Amity we were in front of her house playing work-up, a baseball variation where you move from position to position by outs until you get to bat.
He toured Japan with Judy Collins, and on his return in 1967, he presented the initial work-up on "Alice's Restaurant" at the WNYC Folk Song Festival.
Etymology
Deverbal from work up.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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