close season
/ˈkləʊz ˈsiːzən/
"close-season" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“close season” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The time of year when no competition takes place.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | close season |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkləʊz ˈsiːzən/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “close season” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
close season is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkləʊz ˈsiːzən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for close season, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is close season, spelled C-L-O-S-E- -S-E-A-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1The time of year when no competition takes place.
- 2The time of year when hunting or fishing is not permitted.
- 3A situation or period in which some activity is forbidden or discontinued.
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 “close season”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-L-O-S-E- -S-E-A-S-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkləʊz ˈsiːzən/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.