rush

\ʁœʃ\

/\ʁœʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“rush” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,245. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,245
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attaque soudaine.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rush · rush · French

rush · rank #12,245 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #12,245
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH Roubaix

Nearest frequency peer: Roubaix (-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 « rush »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rush » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rush vs ruth
75% similar
rush vs russ
75% similar
rush vs rust
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rush
PropertyValue
Headwordrush
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁœʃ\
Letters4
Frequency rank#12,245
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rush »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).rushse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Roubaix » (#12,244), « room » (#12,243), « réputée » (#12,247). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rush » est au #12,245. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around rush (IPA \ʁœʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,245 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rush, with forms such as "rrush", "rsuh", and "ruhs". 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, "ruth", "russ", "rust", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is rush, spelled R-U-S-H.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attaque soudaine.
  2. 2
    Attaque soudaine.
  3. 3
    Attaque soudaine.
  4. 4
    Attaque soudaine.
  5. 5
    Épreuve de tournage, document original (bobines de film, bande son, vidéocassettes) produit au tournage.
  6. 6
    Ruée, cohue, afflux.
  7. 7
    Situation où l’on est débordé, où l’on manque de temps dans l’immédiat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how rush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le rush est très utilisé en double, essentiellement par le joueur placé en avant.
  2. Robert Paul ne trouvait pas le « rush » qui lui aurait permis de grignoter les dix centimètres dont Strandwall le précédait. — (L’Auto, 27 août 1933, page 1, in Grubb Sports 1937, page 65)

This word in other languages

onslaught(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • rrush
  • rsuh
  • ruhs
  • rushh
  • russh
  • ursh

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rush - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

rrush1rsuh2ruhs2rushh1russh1ursh2
Edit distance from "rush"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rush"?
"rush" is spelled R-U-S-H. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁœʃ\.
What does "rush" mean?
As a noun, "rush" means: Attaque soudaine.
What words are commonly confused with "rush"?
"rush" is commonly confused with "ruth", "russ", "rust". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rush"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rush" is \ʁœʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rush" come from?
"rush" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rush", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

room#12,243rita#12,241Todd#12,271tons#12,272

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

nées6 variantsyang6 variantskent6 variantsazote6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list