falloff
noun
falloff is a noun meaning “A reduction or decline” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-L-L-O-F-F and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of falloff is falloffs.
What does falloff mean?
noun
- 1
A reduction or decline.
- 2
A note immediately followed by a rapidly descending group of notes.
- 3
The noticeable retraction and falling movement of a buck from a doe, usually indicating successful insemination.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce falloff?
- US
Falloff has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-falloff.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of falloff
- falloffs plural
- fall-off
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is falloff?
Falloff appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).
Falloff in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense A reduction or decline:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | caída |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does falloff come from?
Deverbal from fall off.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).