squash
/skwɒʃ/
"squash" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“squash” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #12,506. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,506
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
Corpus desk
Index EN-squash · squash · English
squash · rank #12,506 · 9 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,506
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stacked
Nearest frequency peer: stacked (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “squash”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- soy
soy
87,497 corpus weight
- squash
squash
87,495 corpus weight
- stacked
stacked
87,494 corpus weight
- statewide
statewide
87,493 corpus weight
- stationary
stationary
87,492 corpus weight
- styled
styled
87,491 corpus weight
What this shows “squash” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | squash |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skwɒʃ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #12,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “squash”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around squash (IPA /skwɒʃ/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,506 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for squash, with forms such as "qsuash", "sqaush", and "sqquash". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "stash", "squat", "squaw", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy… The correct English form is squash, spelled S-Q-U-A-S-H.
Definition
- 1A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
- 2A non-alcoholic drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water or milk.
- 3A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
- 4A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
- 5Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
- 6Something unripe or soft.
- 7A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
- 8An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how squash appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She plays squash every Saturday.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
Etymology
From Middle English squachen, squatchen, from Old French esquacher, escachier, from Vulgar Latin *excoāctiāre, from Latin ex + coāctāre. Probably influenced by Middle English quashen, quassen, from Old French esquasser, escasser (“to crush, shatter, destroy, break”), from Vulgar Latin *exquassare, from Latin ex- + quassare (“to shatter”) (see quash).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- qsuash
- sqaush
- sqquash
- squahs
- squashh
- squassh
- squsah
- ssquash
- suqash
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of squash - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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