voices off
"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 September 3, 2026) - be quiet; silence!
Corpus desk
Index EN-voices-off · voices off · English
voices off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | voices off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “voices off” in English
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
- 1be quiet; silence!
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how voices off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Redirect and remind (verbal): "Freeze. Voices off; eyes on me. Everyone take a few deep breaths." Let students be silent together for thirty seconds.
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.