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humped

/hʌmpt/adjective, verb

humped is spelled H-U-M-P-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, humped means “Having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in humped?

Letters6: H-U-M-P-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is humped?

Humped appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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 humped?

  • /hʌmpt/

Humped 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).

Forms of humped

  • more humped comparative
  • most humped superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does humped mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type.

    a humped cow, a humped curve, a two-humped camel

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of hump (a form of hump)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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