fallaway
adjective, noun
fallaway is an adjective meaning “Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-L-A-W-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fallaway mean?
adjective
- 1
Of a shot, taken while moving away from the basket.
noun
- 1
A shot taken while moving away from the basket.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fallaway
- fallaways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fallaway?
Fallaway appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).
Where does fallaway come from?
Deverbal from fall away.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).