shoot off
"shoot-off" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoot off” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - To leave quickly
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoot off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shoot off” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for shoot off is 9 letters long, classified as a verb. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for shoot off in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is shoot off, spelled S-H-O-O-T- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To leave quickly
- 2To do (something, usually a written or verbal communication) quickly, and without hesitation or forethought.
- 3To overshoot the bounds of a set when filming, showing part of what lies outside it.
- 4Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, off.
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.
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Using “shoot off”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-O-O-T- -O-F-F - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.