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blastoff

noun

blastoff is spelled B-L-A-S-T-O-F-F: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blastoff means “The countdown and launch of a rocket, missile or spacecraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blastoff is blastoffs.

How many letters and syllables are in blastoff?

Letters8: B-L-A-S-T-O-F-F
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is blastoff?

Blastoff appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce blastoff?

    Blastoff has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of blastoff

    • blastoffs plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does blastoff mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      The countdown and launch of a rocket, missile or spacecraft

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does blastoff come from?

    From blast + off.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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