off
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, off sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5oaf, eff
What it means
- adjectivenot in operation or operational
- adjectivebelow a satisfactory level
- adjective(of events) no longer planned or scheduled
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ao1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- castoff
- kickoff
- payoff
- scoff
- standoff
- takeoff
- trough
- blastoff
- checkoff
- cutoff
- doff
- falloff
- knockoff
- layoff
- leadoff
- liftoff
- playoff
- ripoff
- runoff
- spinoff
- stroganoff
- toff
- turnoff
- boff
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
- oaf
- eff
- oft
- iff
- aff
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.