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wus

noun, verb

wus is spelled W-U-S: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, wus means “plural of wu” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of wus is wusses.

How many letters and syllables are in wus?

Letters3: W-U-S
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 94,827th 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 wus?

Wus appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th 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).

Forms of wus

  • wusses plural

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

What does wus mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of wu (a form of wu)

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of wuss.

verb

  1. 1

    Eye dialect spelling of was.

    She wus walking home when it happened.

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

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