kish
/kɪʃ/
"kish" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kish” is uncommon English (frequency #60,912 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,912
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
Corpus desk
Index EN-kish · kish · English
kish · rank #60,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,912
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH Kirkby
Nearest frequency peer: Kirkby (-2 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 “kish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- kaolin
kaolin
39,096 corpus weight
- Kirkby
Kirkby
39,091 corpus weight
- kish
kish
39,089 corpus weight
- Krasnodar
Krasnodar
39,085 corpus weight
- Kraut
Kraut
39,084 corpus weight
- Kumasi
Kumasi
39,082 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #60,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kish is uncommon English at frequency #60,912 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for kish, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta. The correct English form is kish, spelled K-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1A basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how kish appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
the whole kish emptied on [the turf-fire] at once... (c. 1)
Ignorant as a kish of brogues, worth fifty thousand pounds.
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish cis, ceis (“basket, hamper”). Doublet of cesta.
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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