fuck off

verb

"fuck-off" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“fuck 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 go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.

Corpus desk

Index EN-fuck-off · fuck off · English

fuck off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" 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.

Key facts for fuck off
PropertyValue
Headwordfuck off
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “fuck off” in English

fuck offfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

fuck off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for fuck off in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 fuck off, spelled F-U-C-K- -O-F-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
  2. 2
    To leave unexpectedly.
  3. 3
    To fritter; to fuck around.
  4. 4
    To annoy, irritate.
  5. 5
    To abandon.
  6. 6
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fuck, off.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how fuck off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. I wish you'd just fuck off.
  2. If you've come to fight, get outta here You ain't no better than the bouncers We ain't trying to be police When you ape the cops it ain't anarchy Nazi punks Nazi punks Nazi punks, fuck off!

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fuck off"?
"fuck off" is spelled F-U-C-K- -O-F-F.
What does "fuck off" mean?
As a verb, "fuck off" means: To go to hell; to disappear or go away; to screw oneself.
What language does "fuck off" come from?
"fuck off" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list