offbeat

Other forms of offbeat

plural

offbeats·

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 offbeat

What does offbeat mean?

offbeat means "an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in offbeat?

offbeat has 2 syllables: off-beat. The stress falls on "off". In IPA it is /ˈɔfˈbit/.

What is another word for offbeat?

Close synonyms include upbeat, far-out, kinky, quirky, way-out. 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 offbeat a common word?

offbeat 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 offbeat?

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