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squirt

/skwɝt/noun, verb

squirt is spelled S-Q-U-I-R-T: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, squirt means “An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of squirt is squirts.

How many letters and syllables are in squirt?

Letters6: S-Q-U-I-R-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 squirt?

Squirt appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 squirt?

  • US /skwɝt/
  • UK /skwɜːt/

Squirt has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-US-squirt.ogg, En-au-squirt.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with squirt?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as squirt from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹt/):

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 squirt

  • squirts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • squirting participle, present
  • squirted participle, past

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

What does squirt mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.

  2. 2

    A small, quick stream; a jet.

    a squirt of body lotion

  3. 3

    The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.

  4. 4

    A burst of noise.

  5. 5

    slangAn annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.

  6. 6

    AustraliaIrelandUKUSslangA small child.

    Hey squirt! Where you been?

  7. 7

    slangvulgarFemale ejaculate.

  8. 8

    informalAn act of urination.

    Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.

verb

  1. 1

    To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

    The toothpaste squirted from the tube.

  2. 2

    To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.

  3. 3

    To emit, eject, or excrete (something).

  4. 4

    To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.

  5. 5

    obsoleteTo throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.

  6. 6

    slangvulgarTo ejaculate.

  7. 7

    To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.

  8. 8

    To 3D print (a firearm, or a part thereof).

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

Squirt in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanSpritze (instrument), Spritzer, Strahl (small, quick stream; a jet), Knirps, Zwerg, Wicht (small child)
Portugueseesguicho (instrument), jato (small, quick stream; a jet), jorrar (to be ejected, in a rapid stream), esguichar (to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream)
Frenchjet (small, quick stream; a jet), morveux, morveuse (small child), gicler (to be ejected, in a rapid stream)
Spanishchorrear (to be ejected, in a rapid stream)

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 squirt come from?

From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.

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

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