shooter

\ʃu.tœʁ\

/\ʃu.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“shooter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,388. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,388
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit verre contenant généralement 5 à 10 cl servant à la consommation d’alcool, et qui se boit habituellement d’un trait.

Corpus desk

Index FR-shooter · shooter · French

shooter · rank #24,388 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,388
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH shore

Nearest frequency peer: shore (+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 « shooter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « shooter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

shooter vs shower
71% similar
shooter vs siroter
71% similar
shooter vs shoot
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for shooter
PropertyValue
Headwordshooter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʃu.tœʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,388
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « shooter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).shooterse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « shore » (#24,389), « sensibilités » (#24,386), « sigle » (#24,390). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « shooter » est au #24,388. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around shooter (IPA \ʃu.tœʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,388 among 6,032 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit verre contenant généralement 5 à 10 cl servant à la consommation d’alcool, et qui se boit habituellement d’un trait.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for shooter, with forms such as "hsooter", "shhooter", and "shooetr". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "shower", "siroter", "shoot", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is shooter, spelled S-H-O-O-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petit verre contenant généralement 5 à 10 cl servant à la consommation d’alcool, et qui se boit habituellement d’un trait.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how shooter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Zef et sa petite bande se faufilaient avec aisance parmi les danseurs en transe. Des filles, pour la plupart, qui ondulaient comme des serpents au rythme lancinant de la house. Les hommes étant, eux, agglutinés contre le bar, qui croulait sous le double poids de leurs coudes fatigués et de leurs shooters alignés en rang d’oignons.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hsooter
  • shhooter
  • shooetr
  • shooterr
  • shootre
  • shootter
  • shoter
  • shotoer
  • sohoter
  • sshooter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shooter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

hsooter2shhooter1shooetr2shooterr1shootre2shootter1shoter1shotoer2
Edit distance from "shooter"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shooter"?
"shooter" is spelled S-H-O-O-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʃu.tœʁ\.
What does "shooter" mean?
As a noun, "shooter" means: Petit verre contenant généralement 5 à 10 cl servant à la consommation d’alcool, et qui se boit habituellement d’un trait.
What words are commonly confused with "shooter"?
"shooter" is commonly confused with "shower", "siroter", "shoot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "shooter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "shooter" is \ʃu.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "shooter" come from?
"shooter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shooter", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list