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Term: shot

All the wordplay possibilities with the word "shot": spelling, phonetic, and semantic.

shot

Definitions

Noun

  1. The act of firing a projectile
  2. A solid missile discharged from a firearm
  3. (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
  4. A chance to do something
  5. A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
  6. A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
  7. The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
  8. A small drink of liquor
  9. An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
  10. An estimate based on little or no information
  11. An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
  12. Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
  13. An explosive charge used in blasting
  14. A blow hard enough to cause injury
  15. An attempt to score in a game
  16. Informal words for any attempt or effort
  17. The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination

Verb

  1. Hit with a missile from a weapon
  2. Kill by firing a missile
  3. Fire a shot
  4. Make a film or photograph of something
  5. Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
  6. Run or move very quickly or hastily
  7. Move quickly and violently
  8. Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
  9. Record on photographic film
  10. Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
  11. Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
  12. Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
  13. Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
  14. Throw dice, as in a crap game
  15. Spend frivolously and unwisely
  16. Score
  17. Utter fast and forcefully
  18. Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
  19. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
  20. Give an injection to

As a Fragment

Words that contain the term "shot".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shot 1 113
2 shots 1 29
3 shotgun 2 8
4 hot-shot 2 2
5 buckshot 2 1
6 longshot 2 1
7 overshot 3 1
8 shotguns 2 1
9 shotwell 2 1
10 slingshot 2 1
11 snapshots 2 1
12 upshot 2 1
13 deathshot 2 0
14 deshotel 3 0
15 deshotels 3 0
16 earshot 2 0
17 grapeshot 2 0
18 gunshot 2 0
19 gunshots 2 0
20 hendershot 3 0
21 hendershott 3 0
22 hot-shots 2 0
23 hotshot 2 0
24 hotshots 2 0
25 potshot 2 0
26 potshots 2 0
27 reshot 2 0
28 rifle-shot 3 0
29 scattershot 3 0
30 shott 1 0
31 shotts 1 0
32 slingshots 2 0
33 snapshot 2 0

Sounds Like

Words that sound like the term "shot".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 schott 1 1
2 schaadt 1 0
3 shott 1 0
4 szot 1 0
5 szott 1 0

Spelled Like

Words that are spelled similarly to the term "shot".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 short 1 212
2 hot 1 130
3 shots 1 29
4 shorts 1 29
5 shoot 1 27
6 shout 1 8
7 shouts 1 5
8 upshot 2 1
9 schott 1 1
10 shott 1 0
11 sot 1 0
12 shrout 1 0
13 shotts 1 0
14 shortz 1 0
15 shorty 2 0
16 shortt 1 0
17 shoots 1 0
18 shontz 1 0
19 sholto 2 0
20 shohat 2 0

Words That Follow

Words that often follow the term "shot" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shot in 1 3
2 shot down 1 3
3 shot on 1 2
4 shot by 1 2

Words That Precede

Words that often precede the term "shot" in a sentence.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 were shot 1 4
2 and shot 1 3
3 of shot 1 2

Statistically Associated

Words that are statistically associated with "shot" in the same piece of text.

# Word Syllables Freq
1 immediately 5 2
2 graves 1 2
3 find 1 2
4 poles 1 2
5 war 1 2
6 aircraft 2 2
7 fall 1 2
8 aviators 4 2
9 planes 1 2

Consonant Match

Words that contain the same consonants as the term "shot".

# Word Syllables Freq
1 shut 1 46
2 shit 1 2

Results:

Term

Definitions: 37

Fragments: 33

Sound Alikes: 5

Spelled Like: 20

Words that Follow: 4

Words that Precede: 3

Statistically Associated: 9

Consonant Matches: 2

Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.

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