eat shit
"eat-shit" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“eat shit” 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 fall and land on one's face.
Corpus desk
Index EN-eat-shit · eat shit · English
eat shit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" 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 | eat shit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “eat shit” in English
Rare enough to double-check
eat shit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for eat shit, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is eat shit, spelled E-A-T- -S-H-I-T.
Definition
- 1To fall and land on one's face.
- 2To experience a catastrophic breakdown.
- 3To do something disgusting or strongly undesirable.
- 4To be soundly defeated.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, shit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how eat shit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The sidewalk was icy, so I ate shit afer leaving my house.
Finally, for my 13th birthday, I got a skateboard — a Black Knight with those cool black urethane wheels. I cut my teeth on that board — and ate shit on it many, many times.
This word in other languages
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.