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tushie

/ˈtʊʃi/noun

tushie is spelled T-U-S-H-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tushie means “Buttocks, bottom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tushie is tushies.

How many letters and syllables are in tushie?

Letters6: T-U-S-H-I-E
In writingabout once in every 87 million words; the 297,763rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 tushie?

Tushie appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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 tushie?

  • /ˈtʊʃi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-tushie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tushie

  • tushies plural
  • tooshie
  • tooshy
  • tushy

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does tushie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    colloquialButtocks, bottom.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Tushie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense colloquial or childish word for buttocks:

LanguageWords
GermanPopo
Spanishpoto

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 tushie come from?

From tuchus, from Yiddish תּחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (tákhat, “underside, buttocks”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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