scrump
/ˈskɹʌmp/noun, verb
scrump is spelled S-C-R-U-M-P: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scrump means “Anything small or undersized” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scrump is scrumps.
How many letters and syllables are in scrump?
| Letters | 6: S-C-R-U-M-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 89 million words; the 301,415th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 scrump?
Scrump appears about once in every 89 million words in written English, the 301,415th 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 scrump?
- UK /ˈskɹʌmp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scrump.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of scrump
- scrumps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skrump
- skrimp
- scrumping participle, present
- scrumped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scrump mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Anything small or undersized.
- 2
A withered, shrivelled, or undergrown person.
- 3
A small apple.
verb
- 1
To gather windfalls or small apples left on trees.
- 2
To steal fruit, especially apples, from a garden or orchard.
- 3
To pinch, stint; to beat down in price.
- 4
datedslangTo have sex.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does scrump come from?
From a dialectal variation of scrimp, probably from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German schrimpen (“to shrivel up, shrink”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną, *skrimbaną (“to shrink”), related to Old English sċrimman (“to shrink, draw up, contract”). Related to dialectal English skrammed (“benumbed, paralysed”), English shrimp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).