voices off

phrase

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

The verdict

“voices off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - be quiet; silence!

Key facts for voices off
PropertyValue
Headwordvoices off
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechPhrase
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “voices off” sits in English frequency

voices off falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

voices off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "be quiet; silence!".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for voices off, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is voices off, spelled V-O-I-C-E-S- -O-F-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    be quiet; silence!

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 "voices off"?
"voices off" is spelled V-O-I-C-E-S- -O-F-F.
What does "voices off" mean?
As a phrase, "voices off" means: be quiet; silence!
What language does "voices off" come from?
"voices off" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “voices off”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is V-O-I-C-E-S- -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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list