off-base

1. 1.

   located outside a military base

   “off-base housing”

   Similarperipheral

Questions about off-base

What does off-base mean?

off-base means "located outside a military base".

How many syllables are in off-base?

off-base has 2 syllables and divides as off--base under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is off-base a common word?

off-base is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.