# trumpet

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɹʌmpɪt/ · frequency rank #13,442

## Definitions
1. A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
2. Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
3. The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
4. One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
5. A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
6. A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
7. A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
8. Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
9. A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.

## Etymology
From Middle English trumpet, trumpette, trompette (“trumpet”), from Old French trompette (“trumpet”), diminutive of trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), ultimately imitative.
Cognate with Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”), Old Norse trumba (“pipe; trumpet”). More at drum.
Displaced native English beme, from Middle English beme, from Old English bīeme.

## Easily confused with
- **trumpeter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trumpet-vs-trumpeter)
- **trump** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/trump-vs-trumpet)

## Common misspellings (11)
`rtumpet`, `trmupet`, `trrumpet`, `trumept`, `trummpet`, `trumpett`, `trumppet`, `trumpte`, `trupmet`, `ttrumpet`, `turmpet`

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