shool
verb, noun
shool is spelled S-H-O-O-L: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, shool means “To move materials with a shovel” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in shool?
| Letters | 5: S-H-O-O-L |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is shool?
Shool appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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).
Forms of shool
- shools plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- shooling participle, present
- shooled participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shool mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To move materials with a shovel.
The workers were shooling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
- 2
To move with a shoveling motion, to cover as by shoveling
- 3
To shuffle or shamble.
- 4
To go about begging.
noun
- 1
obsoleteA shovel.
- 2
obsoleteA spade.
- 3
datedDated form of shul (“Ashkenazi synagogue”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does shool come from?
From Middle English schovele (> English dialectal shoul, shool), from Old English sċofl (“shovel”), from Proto-Germanic *skuflō, *skūflō (“shovel”), equivalent to shove + -el (instrumental/agent suffix). Cognate with Scots shuffle, shule, shuil (“shovel”), Saterland Frisian Sköifel (“shovel”), West Frisian skoffel, schoffel (“hoe, spade, shovel”), Dutch schoffel (“spade, hoe”), Low German Schüfel, Schuffel (“shovel”), German Schaufel (“shovel”), Danish skovl (“shovel”), Swedish skyffel, skovel (“shovel”), Icelandic skófla (“shovel”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).