slushy
/ˈslʌʃi/
"slushy" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slushy” is uncommon English (frequency #59,025 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,025
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Covered in slush.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slushy · slushy · English
slushy · rank #59,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,025
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Skipton
Nearest frequency peer: Skipton (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “slushy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- situate
situate
40,979 corpus weight
- skillset
skillset
40,978 corpus weight
- Skipton
Skipton
40,977 corpus weight
- slushy
slushy
40,976 corpus weight
- smoak
smoak
40,975 corpus weight
- smth
smth
40,974 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “slushy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slushy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈslʌʃi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “slushy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
slushy is uncommon English at frequency #59,025 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈslʌʃi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for slushy in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From slush + -y. In the sense of a cook, from the sense of slush meaning to refuse grease and fat collected in cooking. The correct English form is slushy, spelled S-L-U-S-H-Y.
Definition
- 1Covered in slush.
- 2Having the consistency of slush.
- 3Soupy; sentimental.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how slushy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I can remember, and not that long ago, when slushy mid-winter days like today always lead my feverish imagination down a murky hallway known as "shacking up."
Etymology
From slush + -y. In the sense of a cook, from the sense of slush meaning to refuse grease and fat collected in cooking.
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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