squirt gun
"squirt-gun" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“squirt gun” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A toy gun used to shoot water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-squirt-gun · squirt gun · English
squirt gun · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | squirt gun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “squirt gun” in English
Rare enough to double-check
squirt gun is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A toy gun used to shoot water.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for squirt gun, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is squirt gun, spelled S-Q-U-I-R-T- -G-U-N.
Definition
- 1A toy gun used to shoot water.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how squirt gun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He possessed a large squirt gun which he delighted to fill with bilge water in the dead of night.
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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.