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Is plump a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word plump is a Scrabble US word. The word plump is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is plump a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word plump is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

PLUMP,

4-letter words (4 found)

LUMP,PLUM,PULP,PUMP,

3-letter words (5 found)

LUM,PLU,PUL,PUP,UMP,

2-letter words (3 found)

MU,UM,UP,

You can make 13 words from plump according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of plump

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Definitions and meaning of plump

plump

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plʌmp/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmp

Etymology 1

From Middle English plump, plompe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch plomp or Middle Low German plump. Cognate with Saterland Frisian plump (“plump”).

Adjective

plump (comparative plumper or more plump, superlative plumpest or most plump)

  1. Having a full and rounded shape; chubby, somewhat overweight.
  2. Fat.
  3. Sudden and without reservation; blunt; direct; downright.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:obese
Antonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:scrawny
Derived terms
  • plumping
  • plumply
  • plumpness
Translations

Verb

plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)

  1. (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
  2. (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
  3. (transitive) To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily.
  4. (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
  5. (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
  6. (transitive with for) To favor or decide in favor of something.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English plumpen, akin to Middle Dutch plompen, Middle Low German plumpen, German plumpfen.

Verb

plump (third-person singular simple present plumps, present participle plumping, simple past and past participle plumped)

  1. (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
    • September 24, 1712, The Spectator No. 492, letter from a prude
      Dulcissa plumps into a chair.
Derived terms
Translations

Adverb

plump

  1. Directly; suddenly; perpendicularly.

Noun

plump (plural plumps)

  1. The sound of a sudden heavy fall.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English plump.

Noun

plump (plural plumps)

  1. (obsolete) A knot or cluster; a group; a crowd.
  2. A group of geese flying close together.

References

  • “plump”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plʊmp/

Adjective

plump (strong nominative masculine singular plumper, comparative plumper, superlative am plumpsten or (uncommon) am plumpesten)

  1. clumsy (movement of person or animal that is often dumpy)
  2. clumsy; crude; brazen (of a trick or strategy)
    ein plumper Versuch ― a crude attempt
  3. squat, stumpy

Declension

Further reading

  • “plump” in Duden online
  • “plump” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Irish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): /pˠl̪ˠʊmˠpˠ/

Noun

plump f (genitive singular plumpa, nominative plural plumpanna)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of plimp

Declension

Derived terms

  • plumpaíl

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “plump”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpʰlʉmp]

Adjective

plump

  1. big and awkward
  2. base, vulgar

Swedish

Adjective

plump (comparative plumpare, superlative plumpast)

  1. (possibly unintentionally) offensive due to lacking tact; rude, vulgar, tactless

Declension

Noun

plump c

  1. a blot (of ink)
    Synonym: bläckplump (“inkblot”)

Declension

Derived terms

  • en plump i protokollet

References

  • plump in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • plump in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • plump in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org