# slump

> English word · Verb · IPA /slʌmp/ · frequency rank #18,187

## Definitions
1. To collapse heavily or helplessly.
2. To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
3. To slouch or droop.
4. To lump; to throw together messily.
5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
6. To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

## 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **sum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sum)
- **sup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sup)
- **SMP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-smp)
- **soup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-soup)
- **sums** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sums)
- **slut** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slut)
- **slur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slur)
- **sumo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sumo)
- **supp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-supp)
- **sump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sump)
- **stamp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-stamp)
- **swamp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-swamp)
- **stump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-stump)
- **stomp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-stomp)
- **slums** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slums)
- **sluts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-sluts)
- **slurs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slurs)
- **slush** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slush)
- **slung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slung)
- **slurp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/slump-vs-slurp)

## Common misspellings (8)
`lsump`, `sllump`, `slmup`, `slummp`, `slumpp`, `slupm`, `sslump`, `sulmp`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/slump