ambushes
/ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪz/
"ambushes" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ambushes” is uncommon English (frequency #50,352 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,352
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of ambush
Corpus desk
Index EN-ambushes · ambushes · English
ambushes · rank #50,352 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Amie
Nearest frequency peer: Amie (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “ambushes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alliteration
alliteration
49,653 corpus weight
- ambushes
ambushes
49,649 corpus weight
- Amie
Amie
49,648 corpus weight
- Amiens
Amiens
49,647 corpus weight
- Anheuser
Anheuser
49,646 corpus weight
- anker
anker
49,645 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ambushes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ambushes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #50,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ambushes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ambushes is uncommon English at frequency #50,352 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæm.bʊʃ.ɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of ambush".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for ambushes, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ambushes, spelled A-M-B-U-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of ambush
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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