bussed
/bʌst/
"bussed" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bussed” is uncommon English (frequency #69,709 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,709
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having or involving transportation by bus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bussed · bussed · English
bussed · rank #69,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,709
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Calista
Nearest frequency peer: Calista (+2 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 “bussed”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- bunce
bunce
30,295 corpus weight
- bussed
bussed
30,292 corpus weight
- Calista
Calista
30,290 corpus weight
- Camorra
Camorra
30,289 corpus weight
- campervan
campervan
30,288 corpus weight
- Cannae
Cannae
30,286 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bussed” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bussed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /bʌst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #69,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bussed” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bussed is uncommon English at frequency #69,709 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /bʌst/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for bussed in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is bussed, spelled B-U-S-S-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having or involving transportation by bus.
- 2Involving desegregation through bussing from the inner city to the suburbs.
- 3Having had the remains of a meal removed.
- 4Having a bus (electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components)
- 5Transferring power by an electrical connection as opposed to using a direct physical coupling.
- 6Having been kissed lightly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bussed appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The percentage of patients who missed their scheduled appointment was 19 percent for the bussed and 51 percent for the nonbussed group (P < 0.001).
In the 2012 academic year, a total of 13,366 bussed school centers were provided within the scope of bussed education. In that same year, a total of 109,058 school buses were used to transport students to bussed education school centers.
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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