smush
/smʌʃ/noun, verb
smush is spelled S-M-U-S-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, smush means “A beaten or pulverized mass” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of smush is smushes.
How many letters and syllables are in smush?
| Letters | 5: S-M-U-S-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is smush?
Smush appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 smush?
- /smʌʃ/
- /smʊʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-smush.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of smush
- smushes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- smoosh
- smushing participle, present
- smushed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does smush mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A beaten or pulverized mass.
The steamroller left her pie an unrecognizable smush.
- 2
An act of crushing or squeezing.
verb
- 1
To mash or push down or in; compress
His favorite part of making preserves with his mother was when he got to smush the raw fruit with the pestle.
- 2
USslangTo engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Smush in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | arreconchumar |
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 smush come from?
Possibly blend of smash + mush.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).