kickoff

Other forms of kickoff

plural

kickoffs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kickoff

What does kickoff mean?

kickoff means "(football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kickoff?

kickoff has 2 syllables: kic-koff. The stress falls on "kic". In IPA it is /ˈkɪˌkɔf/.

What is another word for kickoff?

Close synonyms include beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kickoff a common word?

kickoff is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with kickoff?

4 words rhyme with kickoff. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.