gumdrop
/ˈɡʌm.dɹɑːp/noun
gumdrop is a noun meaning “A small chewy candy made with corn syrup, gelatin, and flavouring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-U-M-D-R-O-P and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gumdrop is gumdrops.
What does gumdrop mean?
noun
- 1
A small chewy candy made with corn syrup, gelatin, and flavouring.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gumdrop?
- UK /ˈɡʌm.dɹɒp/
- US /ˈɡʌm.dɹɑːp/
Gumdrop has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-gumdrop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gumdrop
- gumdrops plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gumdrop?
Gumdrop appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 117,098th 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).
Gumdrop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense chewy candy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Gummibonbon |
| Portuguese | bala de goma, jujuba |
| Spanish | pastilla de goma, gomita, gominola |
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 gumdrop come from?
From gum + drop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).