be off with you
"be-off-with-you" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“be off with you” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Go away; get out.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | be off with you |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “be off with you” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for be off with you is 15 letters long, classified as a phrase. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Go away; get out.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for be off with you, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is be off with you, spelled B-E- -O-F-F- -W-I-T-H- -Y-O-U.
Definition
- 1Go away; get out.
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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Using “be off with you”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-E- -O-F-F- -W-I-T-H- -Y-O-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.