Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

screenshot

/ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: screen-shot
IPA: /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

verb

To take a screenshot of something.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop."
"To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find."
"Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use."
"It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia."

Etymology

From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
British English: /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

screenshots (plural) screenshots (present, singular) screenshotting (participle, present) screenshotted (participle, past) screenshotted (past)

Derived Forms

bullshot

Synonyms

screencast screen capture screen dump screengrab screenie screencap

Rhymes With

not got lot a lot water lot shot hot not so hot cannot white-hot red-hot spot

Questions

How do you pronounce screenshot?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/.
What does screenshot mean?: An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.
Where does screenshot come from?: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

How to pronounce screenshot

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