tush
/tʌʃ/
"tush" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tush” is uncommon English (frequency #71,188 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,188
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A tusk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tush · tush · English
tush · rank #71,188 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,188
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH turney
Nearest frequency peer: turney (-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 “tush”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- TSG
TSG
28,819 corpus weight
- turncoat
turncoat
28,815 corpus weight
- turney
turney
28,814 corpus weight
- tush
tush
28,813 corpus weight
- ulama
ulama
28,809 corpus weight
- unders
unders
28,807 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tush” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tush |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tʌʃ/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #71,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tush” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tush is uncommon English at frequency #71,188 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tʌʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tush, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk. The correct English form is tush, spelled T-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1A tusk.
- 2A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].
[…] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.
Etymology
From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
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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