couch grass
/ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/
"couch-grass" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“couch grass” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | couch grass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “couch grass” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
couch grass is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.".
couch grass doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is couch grass, spelled C-O-U-C-H- -G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1A grass of species Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “couch grass”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-U-C-H- -G-R-A-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkaʊt͡ʃˌɡɹæs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.