blushes
/ˈblʌʃɪz/
"blushes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blushes” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #36,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,456
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of blush
Corpus desk
Index EN-blushes · blushes · English
blushes · rank #36,456 · 11 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,456
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Boas
Nearest frequency peer: Boas (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “blushes”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- beholden
beholden
63,550 corpus weight
- beholder
beholder
63,549 corpus weight
- blushes
blushes
63,545 corpus weight
- Boas
Boas
63,544 corpus weight
- brahman
brahman
63,541 corpus weight
- brahmin
brahmin
63,540 corpus weight
What this shows “blushes” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blushes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈblʌʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “blushes”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around blushes (IPA /ˈblʌʃɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,456 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of blush".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for blushes, with forms such as "bblushes", "bllushes", and "blsuhes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "bushes", "bushel", "busses", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is blushes, spelled B-L-U-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of blush
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bblushes
- bllushes
- blsuhes
- bluhses
- blusehs
- blushess
- blushhes
- blushse
- blusshes
- bulshes
- lbushes
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of blushes - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).