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SHOOT
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
S
1
H
4
O
1
O
1
T
1
Σ
8
Definitions
Verb
- give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein"
- produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
- measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star"
- utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer"
- make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie"
- record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President"
- score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal"
- fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away"
- hit with a missile from a weapon
- spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance"
- throw dice, as in a crap game
- variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth"
- force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon"
- throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball"
- move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
- run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard"
- send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance"
- cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg"
- kill by firing a missile
- emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth"
Noun
- the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer"
- a new branch
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word SHOOT
Yes, SHOOT is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 8 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
SHOOT is a 5-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants.