undershoot

verb, noun

undershoot is spelled U-N-D-E-R-S-H-O-O-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, undershoot means “To shoot not far enough or not well enough” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in undershoot?

Letters	10: U-N-D-E-R-S-H-O-O-T
In writing	about once in every 22 million words; the 143,405th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 undershoot?

Undershoot appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th most frequent word form in the list.

undershoot0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce undershoot?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-undershoot.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of undershoot

undershoots present, singular, he/she/it, plural
undershooting participle, present
undershot participle, past

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

What does undershoot mean?

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

verb

1
To shoot not far enough or not well enough.
2
To fail to go far enough when trying to reach a goal.
3
To underestimate.
4
To record too little photographic footage.

noun

1
The situation where a neuron's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential.
2
An instance of undershooting.