shoot up
"shoot-up" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoot up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To grow taller or larger rapidly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoot-up · shoot up · English
shoot up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 up |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shoot up” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shoot up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for shoot up, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 up, spelled S-H-O-O-T- -U-P.
Definition
- 1To grow taller or larger rapidly.
- 2To fire many bullets or shells at.
- 3To use up (ammunition) by shooting.
- 4To inject (a drug) intravenously.
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shoot, up.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shoot up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Our operating costs have shot up due to the fuel shortage.
He was a small child, but shot up when he reached his teenage years.
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.