wide shot
"wide-shot" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wide shot” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wide shot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wide shot” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wide shot is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for wide shot, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is wide shot, spelled W-I-D-E- -S-H-O-T.
Definition
- 1A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
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.
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Using “wide shot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-D-E- -S-H-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.