get-off
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "get-off", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "get-off" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "get-off" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
get off is aEnglishverb. It means: To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | get off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for get off is 7 letters long, classified as averb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 28 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for get off in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable English patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is get off, spelled G-E-T- -O-F-F, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1To move from being on top of (something) to not being on top of it.
- 2To move (something) from being on top of (something else) to not being on top of it.
- 3To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone.
- 4To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).
- 5To stop using a piece of equipment, such as a telephone or computer.
- 6To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).
- 7To make or help someone be ready to leave a place (especially to go to another place).
- 8To leave (somewhere) and start (a trip).
- 9To leave one's job, or leave school, as scheduled or with permission.
- 10To reserve or have a period of time as a vacation from work.
- 11To acquire (something) from (someone).
- 12To escape serious or severe consequences; to receive only mild or no punishment (or injuries, etc) for something one has done or been accused of.
- 13To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.
- 14To (write and) send (something); to discharge.
- 15To utter.
- 16To make (someone) fall asleep.
- 17To fall asleep.
- 18To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.
- 19To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.
- 20To masturbate.
- 21To kiss; to smooch.
- 22To get high (on a drug).
- 23To quit using a drug.
- 24To find enjoyment (in behaving in a presumptuous, rude, or intrusive manner).
- 25Indicates annoyance or dismissiveness.
- 26To achieve (a goal); to successfully perform.
- 27To steal (something).
- 28To perform a musical solo; to play music well.
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