bumbler

Other forms of bumbler

plural

bumblers·

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 bumbler

What does bumbler mean?

bumbler means "someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence".

How many syllables are in bumbler?

bumbler has 2 syllables: bum-bler. The stress falls on "bum".

What is another word for bumbler?

Close synonyms include bungler, blunderer, fumbler, stumbler, sad sack. 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 bumbler a common word?

bumbler is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.