rush to judgement

noun

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

The verdict

“rush to judgement” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An attempt to come to conclusions despite incomplete information and possibly due to a preexisting bias.

Corpus desk

Index EN-rush-to-judgement · rush to judgement · English

rush to judgement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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

Long-tail rank of “rush to judgement” in English

rush to judgementranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

rush to judgement is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rush to judgement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Rather than collecting the facts, it was a rush to judgement on the part of the department's leaders.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list