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lumpenproletariat

/ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹəʊ.ləˈtɛː.ɹi.ət/noun

lumpenproletariat is spelled L-U-M-P-E-N-P-R-O-L-E-T-A-R-I-A-T: 17 letters. It appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, lumpenproletariat means “The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lumpenproletariat is lumpenproletariats.

How many letters and syllables are in lumpenproletariat?

Letters17: L-U-M-P-E-N-P-R-O-L-E-T-A-R-I-A-T
In writingabout once in every 47 million words; the 211,986th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is lumpenproletariat?

Lumpenproletariat appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th 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 lumpenproletariat?

  • /ˌlʊm.pənˌpɹəʊ.ləˈtɛː.ɹi.ət/
  • /ˌlʌm.-/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-lumpenproletariat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of lumpenproletariat

  • lumpenproletariats plural

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

What does lumpenproletariat mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The lowest stratum of the proletariat, whose mental and physical health, mores and morale have deteriorated, through exploitation by the bourgeoisie, to a degree where they cannot build class consciousness and hence cannot be mobilized for the revolution.

  2. 2

    A social underclass; the riffraff.

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

Lumpenproletariat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlumpenproletariat (in Marxism: the lowest stratum of the…), populace (the social underclass, the riffraff)
GermanLumpenproletariat (in Marxism: the lowest stratum of the…)
Portugueselumpenproletariado (in Marxism: the lowest stratum of the…)
Spanishlumpenproletariado, lumpemproletariado, lumpen (in Marxism: the lowest stratum of the…)

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 lumpenproletariat come from?

Unadapted borrowing from German Lumpenproletariat.

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

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