gushy
"gushy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gushy” is uncommon English (frequency #99,333 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,333
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gushy · gushy · English
gushy · rank #99,333 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,333
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Guanabara
Nearest frequency peer: Guanabara (-3 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 “gushy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- grazier
grazier
678 corpus weight
- Greenslade
Greenslade
676 corpus weight
- Guanabara
Guanabara
671 corpus weight
- gushy
gushy
668 corpus weight
- Hallyu
Hallyu
662 corpus weight
- Hamil
Hamil
661 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “gushy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gushy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #99,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gushy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gushy is uncommon English at frequency #99,333 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
gushy has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From gush + -y. The correct English form is gushy, spelled G-U-S-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
- 2Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gushy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...
Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.
Etymology
From gush + -y.
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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