lumpkin
"lumpkin" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lumpkin” is uncommon English (frequency #78,797 among 16,425 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,797
- frequency rank, English
- 16,425
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lumpkin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #78,797 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lumpkin” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
lumpkin is uncommon English at frequency #78,797 among 16,425 “L” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lumpkin, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773). The correct English form is lumpkin, spelled L-U-M-P-K-I-N.
Definition
- 1A clumsy, heavy, stupid, silly or blundering person.
Etymology
After Tony Lumpkin, an ignorant young man in Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (1771; first performed 1773).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “lumpkin”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-U-M-P-K-I-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.