step-up

Questions about step-up

What does step-up mean?

step-up means "the act of increasing something".

How many syllables are in step-up?

step-up has 2 syllables: ste-p-up. The stress falls on "ste".

What is another word for step-up?

Close synonyms include increase. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is step-up a common word?

step-up is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.