browned off

adj

"browned-off" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“browned off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted

Corpus desk

Index EN-browned-off · browned off · English

browned off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" 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 browned off
PropertyValue
Headwordbrowned off
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “browned off” in English

browned offfalls 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

browned off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for browned off, 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.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is browned off, spelled B-R-O-W-N-E-D- -O-F-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how browned off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Bob was browned off when he was passed over for promotion.
  2. "I went AWOL because I was browned off with being a latrine orderly and not because I wanted hazardous duty," Hill said in making his plea.

Synonyms

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "browned off"?
"browned off" is spelled B-R-O-W-N-E-D- -O-F-F.
What does "browned off" mean?
As an adjective, "browned off" means: Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted
What language does "browned off" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list