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bigshot

noun

bigshot is a noun meaning “Alternative form of big shot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-G-S-H-O-T, and it appears about once in every 21 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of bigshot is bigshots.

What does bigshot mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of big shot.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of bigshot

  • bigshots plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is bigshot?

Bigshot appears about once in every 21 million words in written English, the 139,999th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does bigshot come from?

From big + shot.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).