shoot one's load

verb

"shoot-one-s-load" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“shoot one's load” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To ejaculate; to cum.

Corpus desk

Index EN-shoot-one-s-load · shoot one's load · English

shoot one's load · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for shoot one's load
PropertyValue
Headwordshoot one's load
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “shoot one's load” in English

shoot one's loadranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

shoot one's load is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

shoot one's load doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is shoot one's load, spelled S-H-O-O-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-O-A-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    To ejaculate; to cum.
  2. 2
    To expend one's resources or one's opportunity, especially prematurely; to blow one's chance.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how shoot one's load appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 2001, Penthouse Magazine, Letters to Penthouse XII: It Just Gets Hotter, link I grab her tighter and shoot my load in her bum.
  2. I knew what that meant, and was ready to shoot my load along with him. His cum sprayed in every direction; huge, thick, white jets of hot cum covering the wall and chair in front of him.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shoot one's load"?
"shoot one's load" is spelled S-H-O-O-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -L-O-A-D.
What does "shoot one's load" mean?
As a verb, "shoot one's load" means: To ejaculate; to cum.
What language does "shoot one's load" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list