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pumped

/pʌmpt/adjective, verb

pumped is spelled P-U-M-P-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, pumped means “Pumped up; excited” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pumped?

Letters6: P-U-M-P-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 pumped?

Pumped appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th 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 pumped?

  • /pʌmpt/

Pumped has one syllable (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: En-au-pumped.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pumped

  • more pumped comparative
  • most pumped superlative

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

What does pumped mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    slangPumped up; excited.

    I'm feeling pumped for the game on Friday.

  2. 2

    slangPumped up; having muscles in an engorged state following exercise.

  3. 3

    Wearing pumps (the type of shoe).

  4. 4

    Very tired, especially when too fatigued to grip handholds well.

    I was so pumped by the end of the climb that I could barely hold onto the jugs.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of pump (a form of pump)

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

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