shoot one's mouth off
"shoot-one-s-mouth-off" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoot one's mouth off” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make reckless or exaggerated statements.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoot-one-s-mouth-off · shoot one's mouth off · English
shoot one's mouth off · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" 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 | shoot one's mouth off |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shoot one's mouth off” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shoot one's mouth off is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To make reckless or exaggerated statements.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for shoot one's mouth off in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is shoot one's mouth off, spelled S-H-O-O-T- -O-N-E-'-S- -M-O-U-T-H- -O-F-F.
Definition
- 1To make reckless or exaggerated statements.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shoot one's mouth off appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
George Jessel . . . is still shooting his mouth off as though nothing mattered except his own gift for wise-cracks.
I never shot my mouth off, I was quiet and I listened.
Synonyms
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.