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kump

/kˈʌmp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
kump
IPA
/kˈʌmp/
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A surname.

Etymology

* As a German surname for a bowl maker, from Middle Low German kump (“wooden bowl”), from Old Saxon *kumba, from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz. Variants of this derivation are found in Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia. * Also as a German surname, Americanized from Kumpf.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: -, kump, *kumba, *kumbaz

Inflected Forms

Kumps (plural)

Rhymes With

trump jump pump dump bump lump stump hump slump plump rump gump

Questions

How do you pronounce kump?
The recorded pronunciation is /kˈʌmp/.
What does kump mean?
A surname.
Where does kump come from?
It is traced to German.

How to pronounce kump

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