away game
/əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/
"away-game" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“away game” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.
Corpus desk
Index EN-away-game · away game · English
away game · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | away game |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “away game” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
away game is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for away game in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is away game, spelled A-W-A-Y- -G-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.
This word in other languages
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.