bush
\buʃ\
The verdict
“bush” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,209. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,209
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrière-pays peu habité de savane ou de forêts, bois et broussailles méditerranéens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bush · bush · French
bush · rank #8,209 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,209
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bull
Nearest frequency peer: bull (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bush »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- bordure
bordure
91,795 corpus weight
- bouclier
bouclier
91,794 corpus weight
- bull
bull
91,793 corpus weight
- bush
bush
91,792 corpus weight
- cat
cat
91,790 corpus weight
- chauds
chauds
91,789 corpus weight
What this shows « bush » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bush |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \buʃ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #8,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bush »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bush (IPA \buʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,209 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arrière-pays peu habité de savane ou de forêts, bois et broussailles méditerranéens.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bush, with forms such as "bbush", "bsuh", and "buhs". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "buy", "buts", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bush, spelled B-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1Arrière-pays peu habité de savane ou de forêts, bois et broussailles méditerranéens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les renards et les lapins font désormais partie intégrante du paysage, les dromadaires se multiplient dans le bush et les buffles se reproduisent au nord du pays.
Vos enfants ne savent plus vivre dans le bush. Alors, il faudra bien qu'ils travaillent. Pour ça, ils devront accepter les règles des Blancs.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbush
- bsuh
- buhs
- bushh
- bussh
- ubsh
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bush - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).