work off
"work-off" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“work 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 lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the calories gained from eating something.
Corpus desk
Index EN-work-off · work off · English
work 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 "W" 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 | work off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “work off” in English
Rare enough to double-check
work off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
work off doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 work off, spelled W-O-R-K- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To lose (weight) by doing physical work; to burn off the calories gained from eating something.
- 2To end (a debt) by doing labor for the person owed money.
- 3To produce (printed matter etc.) by some process of work.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how work off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We need to get moving to work off these donuts.
After thirteen years, I've worked off my student debt.
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.