dumb as a bag of hammers
"dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers" is a 19-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dumb as a bag of hammers” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 24
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Remarkably stupid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dumb as a bag of hammers |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 24 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dumb as a bag of hammers” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for dumb as a bag of hammers is 24 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Remarkably stupid.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dumb as a bag of hammers, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is dumb as a bag of hammers, spelled D-U-M-B- -A-S- -A- -B-A-G- -O-F- -H-A-M-M-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Remarkably stupid.
This word in other languages
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.
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- The one correct English spelling is D-U-M-B- -A-S- -A- -B-A-G- -O-F- -H-A-M-M-E-R-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.