# lump

> English word · Noun · IPA /lʌmp/ · frequency rank #11,065

## Definitions
1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
2. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
3. A group, set, or unit.
4. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
5. A dull or lazy person.
6. A fat person.
7. A beating or verbal abuse.
8. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
9. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
10. Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
11. The workhouse.

## Etymology
From Middle English lumpe, from a Germanic base akin to Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to glide, go, hang loosely”). Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).

## Easily confused with
- **lux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lux)
- **luv** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-luv)
- **luz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-luz)
- **Luo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-luo)
- **lun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lun)
- **lung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lung)
- **lust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lust)
- **lure** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lure)
- **luna** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-luna)
- **lush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lush)
- **Lyme** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lyme)
- **Lund** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lund)
- **lurk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lurk)
- **luxe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-luxe)
- **lutz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lutz)
- **Lupe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lupe)
- **lute** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lute)
- **lymph** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lymph)
- **lumps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lumps)
- **lumpy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/lump-vs-lumpy)

## Common misspellings (6)
`llump`, `lmup`, `lummp`, `lumpp`, `lupm`, `ulmp`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/lump