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Yes. The word shoot is a Scrabble US word. The word shoot is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (4 found)

HOOTS,SHOOT,SOOTH,TOHOS,

4-letter words (12 found)

HOOT,HOST,HOTS,OOHS,OOTS,SHOO,SHOT,SOHO,SOOT,SOTH,TOHO,TOSH,

3-letter words (13 found)

HOO,HOS,HOT,OHO,OHS,OOH,OOS,OOT,SHO,SOH,SOT,THO,TOO,

2-letter words (8 found)

HO,OH,OO,OS,SH,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 37 words from shoot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of shoot

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Definitions and meaning of shoot

shoot

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sho͞ot, IPA(key): /ʃuːt/
  • Rhymes: -uːt
  • Homophone: chute

Etymology 1

From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).

Verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

  1. To launch a projectile.
    1. (transitive) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
    2. (transitive) To fire (a projectile).
      Synonym: (of an arrow) loose
    3. (transitive) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
    4. (intransitive) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
    5. (intransitive) To hunt birds, etc. with a gun.
    6. (transitive) To hunt on (a piece of land); to kill game in or on.
      • 1969, Game Conservancy (Great Britain), Annual Review (issues 1-8, page 16)
        Although the estate had been shot previously, there had been no effective keepering and little success with the pheasants released.
    7. (gambling) To throw dice.
    8. (transitive, slang) To ejaculate.
    9. (intransitive, usually, as imperative) To begin to speak.
    10. (intransitive) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
    11. (transitive, figurative) To dismiss or do away with.
    12. (transitive, intransitive, analogous) To photograph.
    13. (transitive, intransitive, analogous, film, television) To film.
    14. (transitive) To push or thrust a bolt quickly; hence, to open a lock.
  2. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
    1. (intransitive) To move very quickly and suddenly.
    2. To go over or pass quickly through.
    3. (transitive) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
    4. (transitive) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
    5. (obsolete, intransitive) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
    6. (obsolete) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
      • 1802, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VII.
        The north-east [wind] is loaded with vapor, insomuch, that the salt-makers have found that their crystals would not shoot while that blows.
    7. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
    8. (informal, ditransitive) To send to someone.
  3. (sports) To act or achieve.
    1. (wrestling) To lunge.
    2. (professional wrestling) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
    3. To make the stated score.
  4. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
  5. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
    Synonym: fix
  6. To develop, move forward.
    1. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
    2. To grow; to advance.
    3. (nautical) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
    4. (transitive) To travel or ride on (breaking waves) rowards the shore.
    5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out.
  7. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
  8. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
  9. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. (See shot silk on Wikipedia)
  10. (card games) To shoot the moon.
  11. (aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).
  12. To carry out a seismic survey with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
Conjugation
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:shoot.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Catalan: xut
  • → Greek: σουτ (sout)
  • → Hijazi Arabic: شوت (šūt)
  • → North Levantine Arabic: شوت (šūt)
  • → Persian: شوت (šut)
  • → Portuguese: chuto, chute, chutar
  • → Romanian: șut
  • → Vietnamese: sút
Translations

Noun

shoot (plural shoots)

  1. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
  2. A photography session.
  3. A hunt or shooting competition.
  4. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
  5. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
  6. A rush of water; a rapid.
  7. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
  8. A shoat; a young pig.
  9. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
    • 1901, Frank Lee Hess, pubs.usgs.gov report. Rare Metals. TIN, TUNGSTEN, AND TANTALUM IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
      In the western dike is a shoot about 4 feet in diameter carrying a considerable sprinkling of cassiterite, ore which in quantity would undoubtedly be worth mining. The shoot contains a large amount of muscovite mica with quartz and very little or no feldspar...
  10. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, ore, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
  11. (card games) The act of taking all point cards in one hand.
  12. A seismic survey carried out with geophones in an attempt to detect oil.
Derived terms
  • (hunt or shooting competition): turkey shoot
Descendants
  • Catalan: xut
  • Portuguese: chuto
Translations

References

Etymology 2

Minced oath for shit.

Interjection

shoot

  1. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain
Synonyms
  • (mild expletive): darn, dash, fiddlesticks, shucks, sugar
Translations

Anagrams

  • Hoots, Htoos, Sotho, hoots, sooth, toosh

French

Pronunciation

Noun

shoot m (plural shoots)

  1. shot (in sports)
  2. shoot 'em up
  3. shot (of drugs)
  4. photoshoot

Further reading

  • “shoot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org