# mush

> English word · Noun · IPA /mʌʃ/ · frequency rank #29,390

## Definitions
1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
2. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. The foam of a breaker.
4. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. A gun.

## Etymology
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”).
Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).

## Easily confused with
- **must** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-must)
- **myth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-myth)
- **mute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-mute)
- **musk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-musk)
- **mutt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-mutt)
- **music** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-music)
- **mushy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-mushy)
- **musty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mush-vs-musty)
- **MS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ms-vs-mush)
- **mu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mu-vs-mush)
- **MH** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mh-vs-mush)
- **Mrs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mrs-vs-mush)
- **mum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mum-vs-mush)
- **MPS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mps-vs-mush)
- **MUD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mud-vs-mush)
- **mph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mph-vs-mush)
- **mug** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mug-vs-mush)
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mos-vs-mush)
- **meh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/meh-vs-mush)
- **MSM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/msm-vs-mush)

## Common misspellings (6)
`mmush`, `msuh`, `muhs`, `mushh`, `mussh`, `umsh`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mush