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bushing

bush·ing/ˈbʊʃ.ɪŋ/noun, verb

bushing is spelled B-U-S-H-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables (bush·ing). It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bushing means “A type of plain bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bushing is bushings.

How many letters and syllables are in bushing?

Letters7: B-U-S-H-I-N-G
Syllables2: bush·ing
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th 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 bushing?

Bushing appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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 bushing?

  • /ˈbʊʃ.ɪŋ/

Bushing has 2 syllables, split bush·ing in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-bushing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of bushing

  • bushings plural

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

What does bushing mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A type of plain bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge.

  2. 2

    An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted.

  3. 3

    A threaded bushing: a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material.

  4. 4

    A lining for an opening through which a conductor passes, providing insulation and mechanical protection for the conductor.

  5. 5

    An adapter for joining pipes of different size.

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of bush (a form of bush)

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

Bushing in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcoussinet (mechanical engineering: type of bearing to…)
GermanLagerschale, Buchse, Lagerbuchse (mechanical engineering: type of bearing to…), Gummilager (mechanical engineering: elastic bearing), Gewindeeinsatz (mechanical engineering: threaded bushing), Muffe (electrical engineering: lining to insulate and…)
Spanishcojinete, buje (mechanical engineering: type of bearing to…), cojinete elástico (mechanical engineering: elastic bearing), casquillo roscado (mechanical engineering: threaded bushing), buje de reducción (adapter for joining pipes)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does bushing come from?

From bush (“metal lining of the axle hole of a wheel or touch hole of a gun”) + -ing.

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

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