pish
/pɪʃ/
"pish" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pish” is uncommon English (frequency #63,143 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,143
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Expressing disdain.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pish · pish · English
pish · rank #63,143 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,143
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Piggott
Nearest frequency peer: Piggott (-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 “pish”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pickaxe
pickaxe
36,862 corpus weight
- picnicking
picnicking
36,861 corpus weight
- Piggott
Piggott
36,859 corpus weight
- pish
pish
36,858 corpus weight
- Pitcairn
Pitcairn
36,857 corpus weight
- playpen
playpen
36,856 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “pish” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pish |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /pɪʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,143 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pish” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pish is uncommon English at frequency #63,143 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /pɪʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Expressing disdain.".
pish has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”). The correct English form is pish, spelled P-I-S-H.
Definition
- 1Expressing disdain.
Etymology
Expressive; perhaps partly from Scots pish (“piss”).
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).