shot
Definitions
Noun
- The act of firing a projectile
- A solid missile discharged from a firearm
- (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
- A chance to do something
- A person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)
- A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
- The act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe
- A small drink of liquor
- An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- An estimate based on little or no information
- An informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera
- Sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put
- An explosive charge used in blasting
- A blow hard enough to cause injury
- An attempt to score in a game
- Informal words for any attempt or effort
- The launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
Verb
- Hit with a missile from a weapon
- Kill by firing a missile
- Fire a shot
- Make a film or photograph of something
- Send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly
- Run or move very quickly or hastily
- Move quickly and violently
- Throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective
- Record on photographic film
- Emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully
- Cause a sharp and sudden pain in
- Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing
- Variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors
- Throw dice, as in a crap game
- Spend frivolously and unwisely
- Score
- Utter fast and forcefully
- Measure the altitude of by using a sextant
- Produce buds, branches, or germinate
- Give an injection to
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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".
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "shot".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "shot" in a sentence.
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "shot" in a sentence.
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Words that are statistically associated with "shot" in the same piece of text.
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.
This Word in the News:
Ex-con shoots and kills 2 people outside Players Championship, delaying course’s opening to public
Mar 14, 2026 New York Post
Mar 14, 2026 New York Post
Retro Jell-O shot is reinvented as high-end craft cocktail — and customers are paying up
Mar 14, 2026 Fox News
Mar 14, 2026 Fox News

