musher
mush·er/ˈmʌʃəɹ/noun
musher is spelled M-U-S-H-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables (mush·er). It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, musher means “One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of musher is mushers.
How many letters and syllables are in musher?
| Letters | 6: M-U-S-H-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: mush·er |
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is musher?
Musher appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 musher?
- UK /ˈmʌʃə/
- US /ˈmʌʃəɹ/
Musher has 2 syllables, split mush·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-musher.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of musher
- mushers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does musher mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
- 2
One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
- 3
slangSynonym of mush (“a cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well”).
- 4
A mushroom.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does musher come from?
From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).