pissed off

adj

"pissed-off" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“pissed off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. 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) - Very annoyed, upset, angry.

Corpus desk

Index EN-pissed-off · pissed off · English

pissed off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" 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 pissed off
PropertyValue
Headwordpissed off
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “pissed off” in English

pissed offsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

pissed off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Very annoyed, upset, angry.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pissed off, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pissed off, spelled P-I-S-S-E-D- -O-F-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    Very annoyed, upset, angry.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you^([sic])
  2. 1984, Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Stuart Brown, Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace, page 103, They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.

Synonyms

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 "pissed off"?
"pissed off" is spelled P-I-S-S-E-D- -O-F-F.
What does "pissed off" mean?
As an adjective, "pissed off" means: Very annoyed, upset, angry.
What language does "pissed off" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list