bump uglies

verb

"bump-uglies" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“bump uglies” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To perform sexual intercourse.

Corpus desk

Index EN-bump-uglies · bump uglies · English

bump uglies · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for bump uglies
PropertyValue
Headwordbump uglies
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “bump uglies” in English

bump ugliesranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

bump uglies is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To perform sexual intercourse.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bump uglies, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is bump uglies, spelled B-U-M-P- -U-G-L-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    To perform sexual intercourse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. I have a right to live off of you because I married you, and because I used to let you get on top of me and bump your uglies
  2. [T]he lead singer found his girlfriend bumping uglies in the dark with the roadie. But then said singer was with a blonde floozie himself—see what being on an L.A. trash-band bill can do to ya?

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bump uglies"?
"bump uglies" is spelled B-U-M-P- -U-G-L-I-E-S.
What does "bump uglies" mean?
As a verb, "bump uglies" means: To perform sexual intercourse.
What language does "bump uglies" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list