raise someone's shag
"raise-someone-s-shag" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“raise someone's shag” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To anger or annoy someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-raise-someone-s-shag · raise someone's shag · English
raise someone's shag · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | raise someone's shag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “raise someone's shag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
raise someone's shag is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To anger or annoy someone.".
raise someone's shag has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: To cause the hair on the nape of an animal's neck to rise, as happens when it is angry or alarmed. Compare raise someone's hackles. The correct English form is raise someone's shag, spelled R-A-I-S-E- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -S-H-A-G.
Definition
- 1To anger or annoy someone.
Etymology
To cause the hair on the nape of an animal's neck to rise, as happens when it is angry or alarmed. Compare raise someone's hackles.
Synonyms
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.