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lush

/ˈlʌʃ/adjective, noun, verb

lush is spelled L-U-S-H: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, lush means “Juicy, succulent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in lush?

Letters4: L-U-S-H
Syllables1
In writing3.5 times per million words; the 13,897th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is lush?

Lush appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce lush?

  • /ˈlʌʃ/
  • [ˈlʌʃ]
  • /ˈlʊʃ/

Lush has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-lush.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with lush?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lush.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: shul.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of lush

  • lusher comparative
  • lushest superlative
  • lushes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • lushing participle, present
  • lushed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does lush mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Juicy, succulent.

  2. 2

    Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.

  3. 3

    Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.

  4. 4

    Savoury, delicious.

    That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!

  5. 5

    Thriving; rife; sumptuous.

  6. 6

    UKslangBeautiful, sexy.

    Boys with long hair are lush!

  7. 7

    CanadaUKslangAmazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

    Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!

  8. 8

    obsoleteLax; slack; limp; flexible.

  9. 9

    slangDrunk; inebriated.

noun

  1. 1

    derogatoryslangA drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

  2. 2

    slangIntoxicating liquor.

  3. 3

    slangA person who enjoys talking about themselves.

    Am I humble or am I a lush?

verb

  1. 1

    To drink (liquor) to excess.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Lush in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchluxuriant (dense, teeming with life), alcoolique (drunkard, sot, alcoholic)
Germanüppig gewachsen (dense, teeming with life), Alkoholiker, Alkoholikerin (drunkard, sot, alcoholic), geil (beautiful, sexy), fantastisch, toll (amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked)
Portugueseviçoso, exuberante (dense, teeming with life), luxuriante (luxuriant, delicious)
Spanishlozano, frondoso, ufano (dense, teeming with life), alcohólico, alcohólica (drunkard, sot, alcoholic)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does lush come from?

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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