offsite
"offsite" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“offsite” is uncommon English (frequency #52,532 among 15,494 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,532
- frequency rank, English
- 15,494
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Away from a main location; in a place not owned by a particular organisation.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | offsite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,532 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “offsite” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
offsite is uncommon English at frequency #52,532 among 15,494 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Away from a main location; in a place not owned by a particular organisation.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for offsite, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From off- + site. The correct English form is offsite, spelled O-F-F-S-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Away from a main location; in a place not owned by a particular organisation.
Etymology
From off- + site.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “offsite”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is O-F-F-S-I-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.