easy as falling off a log
"easy-as-falling-off-a-log" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“easy as falling off a log” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 25
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very easy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-easy-as-falling-off-a-lo · easy as falling off a log · English
easy as falling off a log · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 25 letters
- VOW-9 9 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 | easy as falling off a log |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 25 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “easy as falling off a log” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
easy as falling off a log is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very easy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for easy as falling off a log in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
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 easy as falling off a log, spelled E-A-S-Y- -A-S- -F-A-L-L-I-N-G- -O-F-F- -A- -L-O-G.
Definition
- 1Very easy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how easy as falling off a log appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For me, making a meal out of leftovers is as easy as falling off a log.
Synonyms
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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