rump
/ˈɹʌmp/
"rump" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rump” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,273. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,273
- frequency rank, English
- 3,094
- “R” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
Corpus desk
Index EN-rump · rump · English
rump · rank #27,273 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,273
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,094
- PHOTO-FINISH ruff
Nearest frequency peer: ruff (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “rump”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- retracted
retracted
72,731 corpus weight
- ruff
ruff
72,729 corpus weight
- rump
rump
72,728 corpus weight
- Santander
Santander
72,726 corpus weight
- Schiff
Schiff
72,725 corpus weight
- Schiller
Schiller
72,724 corpus weight
What this shows “rump” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rump |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɹʌmp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #27,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “rump”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around rump (IPA /ˈɹʌmp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,273 among 3,094 “R” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for rump, with forms such as "rmup", "rrump", and "rummp". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "run", "rut", "Rus", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *h… The correct English form is rump, spelled R-U-M-P.
Definition
- 1The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
- 2A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
- 3The buttocks.
- 4A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rump appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.
Etymology
From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”). In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- rmup
- rrump
- rummp
- rumpp
- rupm
- urmp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rump - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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