spesh
/spɛʃ/adjective
spesh is an adjective meaning “special” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-E-S-H, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does spesh mean?
adjective
- 1
slangspecial
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Hey. You look really cute today. Listen, this is gonna be tough, I know. It's gonna take some serious restraint on our part. But what we have is rare. Super spesh. But I'm afraid we can't act on it, Jude.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce spesh?
- /spɛʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-spesh.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spesh
- more spesh comparative
- most spesh superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is spesh?
Spesh appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Where does spesh come from?
Shortened from special.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).