pash
/pæʃ/
"pash" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pash” is uncommon English (frequency #87,657 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,657
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To snog, to make out, to kiss.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pash · pash · English
pash · rank #87,657 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,657
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH passphrase
Nearest frequency peer: passphrase (+1 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 “pash”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Panay
Panay
12,349 corpus weight
- Pangaea
Pangaea
12,348 corpus weight
- paralysing
paralysing
12,347 corpus weight
- pash
pash
12,344 corpus weight
- passphrase
passphrase
12,343 corpus weight
- pendent
pendent
12,337 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pash” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pash |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pæʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,657 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pash” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pash is uncommon English at frequency #87,657 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /pæʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To snog, to make out, to kiss.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pash, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of passion. The correct English form is pash, spelled P-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1To snog, to make out, to kiss.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
‘You gonna pash her?’ ‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet. ‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else was good at.
2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page, There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.
Etymology
Clipping of passion.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).