shoot
\ʃut\
The verdict
“shoot” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,155. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,155
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tir de ballon ou à balle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-shoot · shoot · French
shoot · rank #19,155 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,155
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH scouts
Nearest frequency peer: scouts (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « shoot »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- saurai
saurai
80,849 corpus weight
- scientifiqu…
scientifiquement
80,848 corpus weight
- scouts
scouts
80,847 corpus weight
- shoot
shoot
80,846 corpus weight
- sid
sid
80,845 corpus weight
- sis
sis
80,844 corpus weight
What this shows « shoot » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʃut\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shoot »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shoot (IPA \ʃut\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,155 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shoot, with forms such as "hsoot", "shhoot", and "shoott". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "soo", "sot", "sont", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is shoot, spelled S-H-O-O-T.
Definition
- 1Tir de ballon ou à balle.
- 2Shoot them up, jeu vidéo où l’on doit tirer sur tout ce qui bouge.
- 3Injection intraveineuse de drogue.
- 4Séance de pose photographique (de l’anglais photoshoot).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shoot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Antoine ôta furieusement sa blouse, en fit une boule et l'expédia furieusement en l'air d'un violent shoot du gauche.
J'ai raté plus de neuf mille tirs dans ma carrière. J'ai perdu plus de trois cents matchs. Vingt-six fois on a cru en ma capacité à réussir le shoot décisif et je l'ai raté. J'ai échoué un nombre incroyable de fois dans ma vie sans jamais renoncer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsoot
- shhoot
- shoott
- shoto
- sohot
- sshoot
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shoot - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).