off-season
"off-season" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“off-season” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The part of the year when business is most slack and there are fewest clients or visitors.
Corpus desk
Index EN-off-season · off-season · English
off-season · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | off-season |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “off-season” in English
Rare enough to double-check
off-season is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for off-season, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From off- + season. The correct English form is off-season, spelled O-F-F---S-E-A-S-O-N.
Definition
- 1The part of the year when business is most slack and there are fewest clients or visitors.
- 2A period of time when regular competitions are not being held, or when an athlete is not participating in competitions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how off-season appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seaside resorts in the off-season are really depressing.
Alternating off-season and precontest cycles in bodybuilding over a period of years will result in the relatively quick development of a championship physique.
Etymology
From off- + season.
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.