rump

Other forms of rump

plural

rumps·

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 rump

What does rump mean?

rump means "the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rump?

rump has 1 syllable: rump. In IPA it is /ˈɹʌmp/.

What is another word for rump?

Close synonyms include hindquarters, croup, croupe, buttocks, nates. 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 rump a common word?

rump is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.