plash
/plæʃ/noun, verb
plash is spelled P-L-A-S-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, plash means “A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of plash is plashes.
How many letters and syllables are in plash?
| Letters | 5: P-L-A-S-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 49 million words; the 217,360th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 plash?
Plash appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 plash?
- US /plæʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-plash.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with plash?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as plash from its last stressed vowel (/æʃ/):
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 plash
- plashes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- plashing participle, present
- plashed participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does plash mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.
- 2
A sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something; also, an act causing this sound; a splash.
- 3
UKA heavy fall of rain; a downpour.
- 4
obsoleterareA splash of light on a surface.
- 5
UKarchaicA plant stem which has been partly cut, bent down, and intertwined with other stems to make or repair a hedge; also, a bush, hedge, etc., which has been pleached in this manner; a pleach.
verb
- 1
To hit (someone or something) with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; to splash.
- 2
To splash or sprinkle (a surface, such as a wall) with a liquid colouring matter.
to plash a wall in imitation of granite
- 3
archaicTo agitate or plunge into (water or some other liquid), causing it to splash.
- 4
To hit the surface of water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound; also, to move in water with a splashing sound; to splash.
- 5
Of water or some other liquid: to hit something, or to move about, with a splashing sound; to splash.
- 6
archaicTo hit someone or something with water or some other liquid, causing a splashing sound.
- 7
UKSynonym of pleach (“to make or repair (a hedge) by partly cutting plant stems, bending them down, and intertwining them with other stems”).
- 8
obsoleteTo bend down and intertwine (branches or stems of plants, etc.) to make or repair a hedge.
- 9
obsoleteTo bend down (a bush, tree, or other plant).
- 10
obsoleteTo intertwine (branches or stems of plants) on a trellis; to trellis; also, to train (a tree or other plant) to grow against a wall; to espalier.
- 11
obsoleteTo intertwine (branches, flowers, etc.) together; to interweave.
- 12
obsoleteTo intertwine branches or stems of plants of (a wood) to block a passage for defensive purposes.
interjection
- 1
obsoleteUsed to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting something.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does plash come from?
From Middle English plasch, plasche, plash, plashe (“pool of standing water, marshy place; torrent of water (?)”), from Late Old English plæsċ, plesċ (“pool; puddle”), probably from Proto-West Germanic *plask (“pool”); further etymology unknown, probably ultimately onomatopoeic, referring to the sound of splashing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).