Stumble

//ˈstʌmbəl//

Synonyms for "stumble" (237 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (48)

lurch trip bad job balk barge be all thumbs befog bevue bewilder blooper blunder blunder away blunder into blunder on blunder upon bobble boggle bonehead play boner boo boo

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boo-boo botch breakdown bumble bump bump into bungle butcher cap capsize careen career chance clump clumsy performance collapse come a cropper come across come up against comedown commit a gaffe

Noun(5 words)

bloomer blooper blunder boo-boo cock-up

Verb(2 words)

blunder bumble

Strong matches (71)

Related words (118)

inadvertency jib labor lapse lapsus calami lapsus linguae light limp list loose thread luck lumber mammer mar meet mess miscalculate miscue misstep mistake

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Noun(16 words)

lapse lapsus lulu lurch mess-up misstep mistake muck-up screwup slip slip-up solecism stagger thinko trip trip-up

Verb(7 words)

make a mistake misdo muck up screw up slip up trip trip up

Related word relations

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7 relation types

More general

19 entries

bloomer blooper blunder boner boo-boo botch bungle come by come into err flub foul-up fuckup gait mistake move

Showing 16 of 19 words.

Synonyms

3 entries

blooper lurch trip

Related terms

1 entries

stumbling block

derived

7 entries

stumble across stumble against stumble into stumble on stumble onto stumble upon stumble-drunk

entails

1 entries

walk

manner of

4 entries

come by err move walk

related to

23 entries

action almost almost fall blunder clumsily clumsy confound error fall footing like like trip lose lose footing mislead misstep

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Translations

171 translations across 46 languages.

Ancient Greek

4 entries

διάπτωμα noun (an error or blunder)
πταῖσμα noun (a fall or trip)
σφάλμα noun (a fall or trip)
πταίω verb (to trip or fall)

Arabic

4 entries

عَثْرَة noun (a fall or trip)
تعتر verb (to trip or fall)
عتر verb (to trip or fall)
عَثَرَ verb (to trip or fall)

Bulgarian

4 entries

запъване noun (a fall or trip)
погрешна стъпка noun (an error or blunder)
спъване noun (a fall or trip)
греша verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Catalan

4 entries

ensopegada noun (a fall or trip)
ensopegar verb (to trip or fall)
entrebancar-se verb (to trip or fall)
entrebancar-se verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

失足 noun (a fall or trip)
過失 /过失 noun (an error or blunder)
犯錯 /犯错 verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)
絆倒 /绊倒 verb (to trip or fall)

Czech

4 entries

klopýtnutí noun (a fall or trip)
zakopnutí noun (a fall or trip)
klopýtnout verb (to trip or fall)
zakopnout verb (to trip or fall)

Danish

4 entries

fejl noun (an error or blunder)
fejltrin noun (an error or blunder)
snublen noun (a fall or trip)
begå fejl verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Dutch

3 entries

struikelen noun (a fall or trip)
strompelen verb (to trip or fall)
struikelen verb (to trip or fall)

Egyptian

1 entries

M16-M16-D54 verb (to trip or fall)

Esperanto

4 entries

faleti verb (to trip or fall)
falpuŝiĝi verb (to trip or fall)
stumbli verb (to trip or fall)
stumbli verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Faroese

1 entries

snáva verb (to trip or fall)

Finnish

4 entries

kompastus noun (a fall or trip)
moka noun (an error or blunder)
virhe noun (an error or blunder)
kompastua verb (to trip or fall)

French

4 entries

bourde noun (an error or blunder)
chute noun (a fall or trip)
faux pas noun (a fall or trip)
broncher verb (to trip or fall)

Galician

2 entries

embelecar verb (to trip or fall)
tropezar verb (to trip or fall)

Georgian

2 entries

ბორძიკი noun (a fall or trip)
წაბორძიკება noun (a fall or trip)

German

4 entries

Ausrutscher noun (an error or blunder)
Fehler noun (an error or blunder)
Fehltritt noun (a fall or trip)
Patzer noun (an error or blunder)

Gothic

1 entries

𐌲𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽 verb (to trip or fall)

Hungarian

4 entries

botlás noun (a fall or trip)
botlás noun (an error or blunder)
akadozik verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)
belebicsaklik verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Icelandic

1 entries

hnjóta verb (to trip or fall)

Ido

4 entries

butar verb (to trip or fall)
faletar verb (to trip or fall)
mispazar verb (to trip or fall)
pedobutar verb (to trip or fall)

Irish

1 entries

tuisligh verb (to trip or fall)

Italian

4 entries

scivolone noun (a fall or trip)
imbattersi verb (to trip or fall)
incespicare verb (to walk clumsily)
inciampare verb (to trip or fall)

Japanese

1 entries

躓く verb (to trip or fall)

Korean

2 entries

넘어질 뻔하다 verb (to trip or fall)
넘어질 뻔하다 verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Latvian

1 entries

klupt verb (to trip or fall)

Maltese

1 entries

għotor verb (to trip or fall)

Māori

4 entries

tapepa verb (to trip or fall)
tapepe verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)
tatu verb (to trip or fall)
tatutu verb (to trip or fall)

Norman

1 entries

trébutchi verb (to trip or fall)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

snuble verb (to trip or fall)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

snubla verb (to trip or fall)

Occitan

2 entries

contrapàs noun (a fall or trip)
escarlimpada noun (a fall or trip)

Oromo

1 entries

gufachuu verb (to trip or fall)

Persian

3 entries

سکندر noun (a fall or trip)
سکندری noun (a fall or trip)
سکرفیدن verb (to trip or fall)

Polish

4 entries

potknięcie noun (an error or blunder)
potknięcie się noun (a fall or trip)
potknąć się verb (to trip or fall)
potykać się verb (to trip or fall)

Portuguese

4 entries

tropeço noun (a fall or trip)
bater com um obstáculo verb (to trip or fall)
cometer um erro verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)
esbarrar verb (to trip or fall)

Quechua

1 entries

mitk'ay verb (to trip or fall)

Russian

4 entries

про́мах noun (an error or blunder)
спотыка́ние noun (a fall or trip)
оступа́ться verb (to trip or fall)
оступа́ться verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Slovak

4 entries

potknutie sa noun (a fall or trip)
zakopnutie noun (a fall or trip)
potknúť sa verb (to trip or fall)
zakopnúť verb (to trip or fall)

Spanish

4 entries

desliz noun (an error or blunder)
torpeza noun (an error or blunder)
traspié noun (a fall or trip)
tropezón noun (a fall or trip)

Swahili

1 entries

kwaa verb (to trip or fall)

Swedish

2 entries

snava verb (to trip or fall)
snubbla verb (to trip or fall)

Telugu

1 entries

కాలుజారు verb (to trip or fall)

Tocharian B

1 entries

trāpp verb (to trip or fall)

Turkish

2 entries

tökezlemek verb (to trip or fall)
tökezlemek verb (to make a mistake or have trouble)

Ukrainian

3 entries

спотика́тися verb (to trip or fall)
спотикнутися verb (to trip or fall)
спіткнутися verb (to trip or fall)

Walloon

2 entries

estrebukî verb (to trip or fall)
si trebouxhî verb (to trip or fall)

Sample sentences

24 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I often stumble over something as I am blind as a bat in the dark.

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She walked carefully so as not to stumble over a rock.

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Don't stumble over the rock.

Source: tatoeba (2796884)

While I run, I stumble.

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