gump stump

noun

"gump-stump" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The anus.

Corpus desk

Index EN-gump-stump · gump stump · English

gump stump · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "G" 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 gump stump
PropertyValue
Headwordgump stump
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “gump stump” in English

gump stumpsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

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

Rare enough to double-check

gump stump is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The anus.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gump stump, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is gump stump, spelled G-U-M-P- -S-T-U-M-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    The anus.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. "Finding them won't be a problem. There's employment records, driver's license records, Social Security records, records up the gump-stump. […]
  2. "Are you hungry? We've got eggs up the gump stump, honey. I thought we could scramble up a panful for breakfast."

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 "gump stump"?
"gump stump" is spelled G-U-M-P- -S-T-U-M-P.
What does "gump stump" mean?
As a noun, "gump stump" means: The anus.
What language does "gump stump" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list