blow-off
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "blow-off", 8-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "blow-off" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "blow-off" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
blow off is aEnglishverb. It means: To remove something by blowing on it.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blow off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for blow off is 8 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 13 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for blow off in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is blow off, spelled B-L-O-W- -O-F-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To remove something by blowing on it.
- 2To vent, usually, to reduce pressure in a container.
- 3To let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose.
- 4Synonym of fart.
- 5To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
- 6To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
- 7To shirk or disregard (a duty or person).
- 8To forcibly disconnect something by use of a firearm or explosive device.
- 9To force to leave a course.
- 10To perform oral sex on (someone); to give a blowjob to or suck off (someone).
- 11To buy food or drink for (someone); to treat (someone).
- 12To use up or spend (something).
- 13To cause (a body part etc.) to detach by shooting it with a firearm.
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