Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bullet hell

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English

Syllables: bul-let hell
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A (genre of) two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Mars Matrix is a bullet hell game that is pretty well designed."
"A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games..."
"The camera is a convenient nonviolent replacement for a gun, a principle perhaps taken most literally by Shoot the Bullet (2005), a bullet hell game in which you clear bullets by photographing them."

Usage

Inflected Forms

bullet hells (plural) bullet-hell (alternative)

Questions

What does bullet hell mean?: A (genre of) two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.

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