# thrush

> English word · Noun · IPA /θɹʌʃ/ · frequency rank #35,985

## Definitions
1. Any of numerous species of songbirds of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, such as the song thrush, mistle thrush, bluebird, and American robin.
2. A female singer.

## Etymology
From Middle English thrusche, þrusch, þresche, from a combination of Old English þrysċe (from Proto-Germanic *þruskijǭ, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *þruskō) and Old English þræsċe (from Proto-Germanic *þrauskǭ and/or *þrastuz); all from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”).
Cognate with German Drossel, Old Norse þrǫstr, Latin turdus, Lithuanian strazdas (“thrush”), Middle Irish truid, Welsh drudwy (“starling”), Old Church Slavonic дрозгъ (drozgŭ), Russian дрозд (drozd).

## Easily confused with
- **thus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-thus)
- **trust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-trust)
- **truth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-truth)
- **trash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-trash)
- **truss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-truss)
- **Trish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-trish)
- **torus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-torus)
- **thrust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-thrust)
- **thrusts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrush-vs-thrusts)
- **thru** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thru-vs-thrush)
- **though** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/though-vs-thrush)
- **thrash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/thrash-vs-thrush)
- **through** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/through-vs-thrush)

## Common misspellings (10)
`htrush`, `thhrush`, `thrrush`, `thrsuh`, `thruhs`, `thrushh`, `thrussh`, `thursh`, `trhush`, `tthrush`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/thrush