Skyrim Shouts – Are There 3 Words to Every Shout?

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I noticed that every shout has place for 3 words in the menu. What's confusing me is that I found a shout which already has all of the 3 words listed, but greyed out so I can learn them, while others (for example the fire damage shout) only have one word listed and greyed out.

Are there really 3 words to any shout?

Best Answer

Yes, all shouts involve 3 words.

Here is releveant information on the words:

You can learn thu'um words even if you dont have dragon souls.
However dragonsouls are needed to activate a shout word.

— Wikia - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Word Wall

The player can choose to only vocalize part of a dragon shout which will lower the recharge time of the shout but cause the shout to be weaker. In an interview Todd Howard said every shout has 3 words and there is 1 word per word wall.

— Wikia - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragon Shouts

So, there are three states for a word:

  • Invisible: The word hasn't been learned nor activated.

  • Grayed out: The word has been learned, but not activated yet.

  • White: The word has been learned and been activated.

Here is a full list of the 24 dragon scouts:

  • FUS RO DAH: Force Balance Push (Unrelenting Force)

  • IIZ SLEN NUS: Ice Flesh Statue (Ice Form)

  • STRUN BAH QO: Storm Wrath Lightning (Storm Call)

  • YOL TOOR SHUL: Fire Inferno Sun (Fire Breath)

  • TIID KLO UL: Time Sand Eternity (Slow Time)

  • WULD NAH KEST: Whilwind, Fury, Tempest (Whilwind Sprint)

  • RAAN MIR TAH: Animal, Allegiance, Pack (Animal Allegiance)

  • SU GRAH DUN: Air, Battle, Grace (Elemental Fury)

  • FIN ZI GRON: Fade, Sprint, Blind (Become Ethereal)

  • FO KRAH DIIN: Frost Cold Freeze (Frost Breath)

  • ZUL MEY GUT: Voice Fool Far (Throw Voice)

  • ZUN HAAL VIIK: Weapon, Hand, Defeat (Disarm)

  • LOK VAR KOOR: Sky Spring Summer (Clear Skies)

  • HUN KAAR ZOOL: Hero Champion Legend (Call of Valor)

  • JOOR ZAH FRUL: Mortal Finite Temporary (Dragonrend)

  • KRII LUN AUS: Kill, Leech, Suffer (Marked for Death)

  • LAAS YA NIR: Life, Seek, Hunt (Aura Whisper)

  • OD AH VIING: Snow Hunter Wing (Call Dragon)

  • KAAN DREM OV: Kyne, Peace, Trust (Kyne's Peace)

  • FAAS RU MAAR: Fear Run Terror (Dismaying Shout)

  • SLEN TIID VO: Flesh, Time, Undo (Ressurect Dead Dragon, not available to player, Alduin)

  • N/A: N/A (Meteor Swarm, not available to player, Alduin)

  • FIIK, LO, SAH: Mirror, Deceive, Phantom (N/A, not available to player, Greybeards)

  • VEN, MUL, RIIK: Wind, Strong, Gale (N/A, not available to player, Alduin)

— See Wikia - Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragon Shouts for more details.

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