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abrash

/ˈɑ.bɹəʃ/noun

abrash is spelled A-B-R-A-S-H: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, abrash means “A variation in color (often applied to Oriental rugs)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of abrash is abrashes.

How many letters and syllables are in abrash?

Letters6: A-B-R-A-S-H
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 55 million words; the 231,291st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is abrash?

Abrash appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st most frequent word form in the list.

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

How do you pronounce abrash?

  • US /ˈɑ.bɹəʃ/
  • US /ˈɑ.bɹɑʃ/

Abrash has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of abrash

  • abrashes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does abrash mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A variation in color (often applied to Oriental rugs).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does abrash come from?

Borrowed from Turkish abraş, from Ottoman Turkish آبراش (abraş), from Arabic أَبْرَش (ʔabraš, “dappled, mottled”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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