shooting
shoot·ing/ˈʃuːtɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb
shooting is spelled S-H-O-O-T-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables (shoot·ing). It appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, shooting means “Moving or growing quickly” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in shooting?
| Letters | 8: S-H-O-O-T-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: shoot·ing |
| In writing | 60 times per million words; the 1,724th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is shooting?
Shooting appears 60 times per million words in written English, the 1,724th 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).
How do you pronounce shooting?
- /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
Shooting has 2 syllables, split shoot·ing in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-shooting.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shooting?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as shooting.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: soothing.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of shooting
- shootings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shooting mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Moving or growing quickly
Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
- 2
Of a pain, sudden and darting
I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
noun
- 1
an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
- 2
the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
- 3
a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
- 4
the act of one who, or that which, shoots
the shooting of rays of light
- 5
a sensation of darting pain
a shooting in one's head
- 6
filming
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate shooting?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of shooting: shtg.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Shooting in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | tir, fusillade |
| German | Schießen, Schießerei |
| Portuguese | tiroteio , tiro |
| Spanish | tiroteo, balacera, baleadura , tiro , rodaje |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does shooting come from?
From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).