Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

write up

/ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.01 in modern English

Syllables: write up
IPA: /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To produce by writing.

Transitive verb

verb

To document officially the faults, offenses, or wrongdoing of.

Transitive verb

verb

To write about positively; to praise in writing.

Transitive verb

verb

To make an upward adjustment in the value of an asset.

Transitive verb

verb

To annotate a stamp album page with details about the stamp, such as die used or colour variety.

Transitive verb

verb

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see write, up.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"The supervisor wrote up the personnel report about him."
"Near-synonym: cite"
"His supervisor wrote him up after their last argument."
"Near-synonym: talk up"
"The paper wrote up the team's prospects."
"The company decided to write up its property assets after an independent appraisal showed their market value had increased significantly."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/
British English: /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

writes up (present, singular) writing up (participle, present) wrote up (past) writ up (archaic, past) written up (participle, past) writ up (archaic, participle) ywriten up (obsolete, participle)

Synonyms

write down record transcribe cite talk up report news report story account

Antonyms

write down devalue

Questions

How do you pronounce write up?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹaɪ̯t ˌʌp/.
What does write up mean?: To produce by writing.

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