shushing
"shushing" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shushing” is uncommon English (frequency #99,858 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,858
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shushing · shushing · English
shushing · rank #99,858 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,858
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shuttlecock
Nearest frequency peer: shuttlecock (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shushing”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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143 corpus weight
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142 corpus weight
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What this shows Bars show where “shushing” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shushing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,858 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shushing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shushing is uncommon English at frequency #99,858 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shushing in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is shushing, spelled S-H-U-S-H-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shushing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings.
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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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.