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How to spell jumping

hear it/'dʒʌmpɪŋ/verbLong vowels

What it means: To push oneself off the ground into the air.

In a sentence: The frog is jumping over the lily pad.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as jupming or jumpin.

Same family: jumps, jumped, jumper, jumping-jack, leap. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Jumping comes from the verb “jump,” which appeared in English around the 16th century, possibly as an imitation of the sound or sudden action of a leap. The -ing ending is an old English suffix used to form nouns that describe actions or activities.

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