rushes
\ʁœʃ\
The verdict
“rushes” is uncommon French (frequency #77,893 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,893
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de rush.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rushes · rushes · French
rushes · rank #77,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,893
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rugissant
Nearest frequency peer: rugissant (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rushes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rouleur
rouleur
22,112 corpus weight
- rouvrira
rouvrira
22,111 corpus weight
- rugissant
rugissant
22,109 corpus weight
- rushes
rushes
22,108 corpus weight
- récessif
récessif
22,106 corpus weight
- rédigeait
rédigeait
22,105 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rushes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rushes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʁœʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #77,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rushes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rushes is uncommon French at frequency #77,893 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁœʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de rush.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for rushes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is rushes, spelled R-U-S-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 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.
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