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Cush or kush?

cush is an adjective meaning “Excellent, very good”; kush is a noun meaning “Marijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in…”. Use cush as an adjective and kush as a noun (cush is also a noun: “The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that…”). They sound the same (/kʊʃ/). In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) kush is about 5.2 times as common as cush.

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What is the difference between cush and kush?

cushkush
Part of speechadjective, nounnoun
Meaning

Cushy

colloquialThe cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly

Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”)

A synthetic cannabinoid-like recreational drug prevalent in Sierra Leone

ExampleThat car owwer there is propa cush!none recorded
Pronunciation/kʊʃ/ /kʉʃ//kʊʃ/
In writingabout once in every 5 million words1.0 times per million words

Sources: cush and kush in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Every current meaning of cush and kush

cush

  1. 1

    adjective slangExcellent, very good

    That car owwer there is propa cush!

  2. 2

    adjective Cushy

  3. 3

    noun colloquialThe cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly

  4. 4

    noun Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”)

    […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler…

  5. 5

    noun Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”)

  6. 6

    noun Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”)

kush

  1. 1

    noun slangMarijuana, especially Cannabis indica (a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, strains of which often have high THC content)

  2. 2

    noun Alternative letter-case form of kush

  3. 3

    noun A synthetic cannabinoid-like recreational drug prevalent in Sierra Leone

Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.

Which is more common, cush or kush?

cush appears about once in every 5 million words; kush 1.0 times per million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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