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rosebush

/ˈɹoʊzˌbʊʃ/noun

rosebush is spelled R-O-S-E-B-U-S-H: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, rosebush means “The shrub that roses grow on: a rose plant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of rosebush is rosebushes.

How many letters and syllables are in rosebush?

Letters8: R-O-S-E-B-U-S-H
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is rosebush?

Rosebush appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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 rosebush?

  • US /ˈɹoʊzˌbʊʃ/

Rosebush has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of rosebush

  • rosebushes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does rosebush mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The shrub that roses grow on: a rose plant.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Rosebush in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense rose plant:

LanguageWords
Frenchrosier
GermanRosenstock
Portugueseroseira
Spanishrosal

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does rosebush come from?

From rose + bush.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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