ease off
"ease-off" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ease off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - to reduce pressure; to become less serious
Corpus desk
Index EN-ease-off · ease off · English
ease off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ease off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ease off” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ease off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "to reduce pressure; to become less serious".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ease off, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is ease off, spelled E-A-S-E- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1to reduce pressure; to become less serious
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ease off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
You should ease off him a while, or he might get upset.
If you take this medicine, the pain should ease off after a few hours.
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.