Drop off or dropoff?
drop off is a verb meaning “To fall asleep”; dropoff is a noun meaning “Alternative form of drop-off”. drop off is written as two words and dropoff as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between drop off and dropoff?
| drop off | dropoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | verb, noun | noun |
| Meaning | To fall asleep USTo deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight A sudden downward slope or cliff | Alternative form of drop-off |
| Example | After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television | none recorded |
| Forms | none | dropoffs |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 9 million words |
Sources: drop off and dropoff in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of drop off and dropoff
drop off
- 1
To fall asleep
After two glasses of whiskey, Tom soon dropped off in front of the television
- 2
A sudden downward slope or cliff
- 3
USTo deliver; to deposit or leave; to allow passengers to alight
Can you drop the kids off at school?
- 4
The precipitous outer side of a coral reef, facing the open sea
- 5
To drop from, fall from
The leaves were slowly dropping off the tree
- 6
A decrease; especially, a sudden one
There has been an unexplained drop-off in sales this quarter
- 7
To drop, fall
The leaves hung on until the end of November, then dropped off quickly
- 8
A delivery; the act of leaving a package, etc
dropoff
- 1
Alternative form of drop-off
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, drop off or dropoff?
drop off is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; dropoff about once in every 9 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search drop off vs dropoff?
“drop off vs dropoff” is searched about 110 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“dropoff vs drop off”, “drop off or dropoff”).
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