cast off
"cast-off" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cast off” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To discard or reject something.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cast off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cast off” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cast off is 8 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cast off, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cast off, spelled C-A-S-T- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To discard or reject something.
- 2To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
- 3To finish the last row of knitted stitches and remove them securely from the needle.
- 4To estimate the amount of space required by the type used for the given copy.
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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 “cast off”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-S-T- -O-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.