ush
/ʌʃ/
"ush" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ush” is uncommon English (frequency #98,854 among 1,433 “U” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,854
- frequency rank, English
- 1,433
- “U” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ush · ush · English
ush · rank #98,854 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,854
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,433
- PHOTO-FINISH urogenital
Nearest frequency peer: urogenital (-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 “ush”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- upgradeable
upgradeable
1,152 corpus weight
- uracil
uracil
1,151 corpus weight
- urogenital
urogenital
1,148 corpus weight
- ush
ush
1,147 corpus weight
- USW
USW
1,146 corpus weight
- vaccinium
vaccinium
1,144 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “ush” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ush |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʌʃ/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #98,854 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ush” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ush is uncommon English at frequency #98,854 among 1,433 “U” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ʌʃ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ush, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Back-formation from usher. The correct English form is ush, spelled U-S-H.
Definition
- 1To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.
Etymology
Back-formation from usher.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).