away game

/əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/

//əˈweɪ ɡeɪm// noun

"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.

Key facts for away game
PropertyValue
Headwordaway game
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “away game” sits in English frequency

away game falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "away game"?
"away game" is spelled A-W-A-Y- -G-A-M-E. The IPA pronunciation is /əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/.
What does "away game" mean?
As a noun, "away game" means: An athletic contest played away from the team's home field.
How do you pronounce "away game"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "away game" is /əˈweɪ ɡeɪm/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "away game" come from?
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Data Source

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list