slump
/slʌmp/
"slump" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slump” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #18,187. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,187
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To collapse heavily or helplessly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slump · slump · English
slump · rank #18,187 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,187
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH slapping
Nearest frequency peer: slapping (-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 “slump”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- sensual
sensual
81,817 corpus weight
- sixties
sixties
81,816 corpus weight
- slapping
slapping
81,815 corpus weight
- slump
slump
81,814 corpus weight
- soften
soften
81,813 corpus weight
- SOS
SOS
81,812 corpus weight
What this shows “slump” 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 | slump |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /slʌmp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #18,187 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “slump”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around slump (IPA /slʌmp/), averb. Corpus frequency is #18,187 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for slump, with forms such as "lsump", "sllump", and "slmup". 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, "sum", "sup", "SMP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance… The correct English form is slump, spelled S-L-U-M-P.
Definition
- 1To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- 2To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- 3To slouch or droop.
- 4To lump; to throw together messily.
- 5To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- 6To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slump appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
Etymology
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsump
- sllump
- slmup
- slummp
- slumpp
- slupm
- sslump
- sulmp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slump - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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