jumping

/ˈd͡ʒʌm.pɪŋ/adjective, noun, verb

jumping is spelled J-U-M-P-I-N-G: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, jumping means “Exuberantly active; in full swing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in jumping?

Letters	7: J-U-M-P-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	17 times per million words; the 4,838th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none 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 jumping?

Jumping appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,838th most frequent word form in the list.

jumping0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce jumping?

/ˈd͡ʒʌm.pɪŋ/

Jumping has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-jumping.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-jumping.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of jumping

more jumping comparative
most jumping superlative
jumpings plural

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

What does jumping mean?

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

adjective

1
colloquialExuberantly active; in full swing.

noun

1
The act of performing a jump.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of jump (a form of jump)