mumbly
adjective
mumbly is an adjective meaning “Prone to mumbling” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-U-M-B-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does mumbly mean?
adjective
- 1
Prone to mumbling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mumbly
- mumblier comparative
- mumbliest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mumbly?
Mumbly appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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).
Where does mumbly come from?
From mumble + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).