bunch
/bʌnt͡ʃ/noun, verb
bunch is spelled B-U-N-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bunch means “A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of bunch is bunches.
How many letters and syllables are in bunch?
| Letters | 5: B-U-N-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 37 times per million words; the 2,618th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is bunch?
Bunch appears 37 times per million words in written English, the 2,618th 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 bunch?
- UK /bʌntʃ/
- UK /bʌnʃ/
- US /bʌnt͡ʃ/
Bunch has one syllable (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: En-us-bunch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with bunch?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bunch from its last stressed vowel (/ʌntʃ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of bunch
- bunches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- bunching participle, present
- bunched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does bunch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.
a bunch of grapes
- 2
The peloton; the main group of riders formed during a race.
- 3
An informal body of friends.
He still hangs out with the same bunch.
- 4
USinformalA considerable amount.
a bunch of trouble
- 5
informalAn unmentioned amount; a number.
A bunch of them went down to the field.
- 6
A group of logs tied together for skidding.
- 7
An unusual concentration of ore in a lode or a small, discontinuous occurrence or patch of ore in the wallrock.
- 8
The reserve yarn on the filling bobbin to allow continuous weaving between the time of indication from the midget feeler until a new bobbin is put in the shuttle.
verb
- 1
To gather into a bunch.
- 2
To gather fabric into folds.
- 3
To form a bunch.
- 4
To be gathered together in folds
- 5
To protrude or swell
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Bunch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | groupe, bouquet, botte , grappe , bande, peloton |
| German | Bund, Strauß , Traube , bündeln, anordnen |
| Portuguese | penca, molho (coletivo de chaves) , cacho , cambada |
| Spanish | manojo, puñado, ramo, bonchote, gavilla, haz |
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 bunch come from?
From Middle English bunche, bonche (“hump, swelling”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant of *bunge (compare dialectal bung (“heap, grape bunch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkō, *bunkô, *bungǭ (“heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ-, *bʰénǵʰus (“thick, dense, fat”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).