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shootaround

noun

shootaround is spelled S-H-O-O-T-A-R-O-U-N-D: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shootaround means “An informal practice session” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shootaround is shootarounds.

How many letters and syllables are in shootaround?

Letters11: S-H-O-O-T-A-R-O-U-N-D
In writingabout once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 shootaround?

Shootaround appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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 shootaround

  • shootarounds plural
  • shoot-around

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does shootaround mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An informal practice session

    The players came to the stadium for the morning shootaround.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does shootaround come from?

From shoot + around.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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