bushman
"bushman" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bushman” is uncommon English (frequency #54,064 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,064
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bushman · bushman · English
bushman · rank #54,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,064
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bushfire
Nearest frequency peer: bushfire (-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 “bushman”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Broussard
Broussard
45,941 corpus weight
- Bruxelles
Bruxelles
45,939 corpus weight
- bushfire
bushfire
45,938 corpus weight
- bushman
bushman
45,937 corpus weight
- buttock
buttock
45,936 corpus weight
- camphor
camphor
45,934 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bushman” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bushman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bushman” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bushman is uncommon English at frequency #54,064 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.".
bushman doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bush + -man. The correct English form is bushman, spelled B-U-S-H-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A man who lives in or has extensive experience of the Australian bush or outback.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bushman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: bushcrafter
An occasional Afghan makes a good bushman. These rare birds, with the help of natives, found that by winding in and out over the soft ground of the valleys they could bring a camel-train where no wheeled transport could go.
Etymology
From bush + -man.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).