sag off
"sag-off" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sag 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
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To skive; to fail to attend school when required to do so.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sag off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sag off” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sag off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sag off, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is sag off, spelled S-A-G- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To skive; to fail to attend school when required to do so.
- 2To back off from an opponent against whom one is defending.
- 3To move too far leeward when sailing on the wind.
- 4To fall in share price.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sag, off.
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.
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Using “sag off”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-A-G- -O-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.