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faceoff

noun

faceoff is a noun meaning “Alternative form of face-off” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-C-E-O-F-F, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of faceoff is faceoffs.

What does faceoff mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of face-off.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of faceoff

  • faceoffs plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is faceoff?

Faceoff appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with faceoff

Also written: face-off (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).