send off
"send-off" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“send 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
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To send; to dispatch.
Corpus desk
Index EN-send-off · send off · English
send off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | send off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “send off” in English
Rare enough to double-check
send off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for send off, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is send off, spelled S-E-N-D- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To send; to dispatch.
- 2Synonym of send away (“to dispatch orders to a place for something to be delivered”).
- 3To emit; to emanate.
- 4To show someone a red card, and dismiss them from the playing area.
- 5To provide a celebration for someone who is leaving; give a sendoff.
- 6A way of celebrating a batsman's wicket usually with some hand gestures that can result in paying a fine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how send off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Have you sent off your application yet?
After a medical procedure I will send off a sister ship to the sphere with the sickened savages.
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.