gush
/ˈɡʌʃ/
"gush" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gush” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #35,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,744
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sudden rapid outflow.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gush · gush · English
gush · rank #35,744 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,744
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH haddock
Nearest frequency peer: haddock (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “gush”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- grays
grays
64,261 corpus weight
- Greeley
Greeley
64,260 corpus weight
- grout
grout
64,259 corpus weight
- gush
gush
64,257 corpus weight
- haddock
haddock
64,256 corpus weight
- halogen
halogen
64,255 corpus weight
What this shows “gush” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gush |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡʌʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “gush”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around gush (IPA /ˈɡʌʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,744 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A sudden rapid outflow.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for gush, with forms such as "ggush", "gsuh", and "guhs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "guy", "gut", "guys", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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… The correct English form is gush, spelled G-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1A sudden rapid outflow.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how gush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.
Etymology
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 ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ggush
- gsuh
- guhs
- gushh
- gussh
- ugsh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of gush - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).