bumpy
/ˈbʌmpi/adjective
bumpy is spelled B-U-M-P-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is bumby: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Bumpy is an adjective meaning “Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements”.
How many letters and syllables are in bumpy?
| Letters | 5: B-U-M-P-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 22,965th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, bumby, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell bumpy?
Bumpy is spelled B-U-M-P-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for bumpy in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is bumpy?
Bumpy appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,965th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce bumpy?
- /ˈbʌmpi/
Bumpy has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-bumpy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bumpy
- bumpier comparative
- bumpiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bumpy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Rough; jumpy; causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements.
a bumpy ride
- 2
Covered with or full of bumps.
bumpy road
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bumpy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | accidenté |
| German | holprig , uneben |
| Portuguese | acidentado , enrugado |
| Spanish | disparejo, desparejo, dispar, borrascoso, turbado, agitado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bumpy come from?
From bump + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).