gushes
/ˈɡʌʃɪz/
"gushes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gushes” is uncommon English (frequency #62,940 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,940
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of gush
Corpus desk
Index EN-gushes · gushes · English
gushes · rank #62,940 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,940
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH gunsmith
Nearest frequency peer: gunsmith (-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 “gushes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Grenier
Grenier
37,066 corpus weight
- grotesquely
grotesquely
37,064 corpus weight
- grungy
grungy
37,063 corpus weight
- gunsmith
gunsmith
37,062 corpus weight
- gushes
gushes
37,061 corpus weight
- hairbrush
hairbrush
37,056 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gushes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gushes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡʌʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,940 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gushes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gushes is uncommon English at frequency #62,940 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡʌʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of gush".
Zero misspellings are on record for gushes in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is gushes, spelled G-U-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of gush
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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