bumble

Other forms of bumble

past tense

bumbled·

present participle

bumbling·

third person

bumbles·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bumble

What does bumble mean?

bumble means "make a mess of, destroy or ruin". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bumble?

bumble has 2 syllables: bum-ble. The stress falls on "bum". In IPA it is /ˈbʌmbəl/.

What is another word for bumble?

Close synonyms include botch, bodge, fumble, botch up, muff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bumble a common word?

bumble is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.