rush to judgement

noun

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"rush-to-judgement" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“rush to judgement” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An attempt to come to conclusions despite incomplete information and possibly due to a preexisting bias.

Key facts for rush to judgement
PropertyValue
Headwordrush to judgement
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “rush to judgement” sits in English frequency

rush to judgement falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for rush to judgement is 17 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An attempt to come to conclusions despite incomplete information and possibly due to a preexisting bias.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rush to judgement, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rush to judgement, spelled R-U-S-H- -T-O- -J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    An attempt to come to conclusions despite incomplete information and possibly due to a preexisting bias.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rush to judgement"?
"rush to judgement" is spelled R-U-S-H- -T-O- -J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "rush to judgement" mean?
As a noun, "rush to judgement" means: An attempt to come to conclusions despite incomplete information and possibly due to a preexisting bias.
What language does "rush to judgement" come from?
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Using “rush to judgement”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is R-U-S-H- -T-O- -J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list