gush

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The English entry for gush is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɡʌʃ/. Corpus data places it at rank #35,744 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A sudden rapid outflow.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for gush, with forms such as "ggush", "gsuh", and "guhs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "gut", "guys", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēo… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is gush, spelled G-U-S-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.