Bundled

How to spell bundled

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce bundled

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does bundled mean?

1. verbTied, gathered, or grouped a number of things together into one package or unit.
2. verbPushed or hurried someone or something quickly and roughly into a place.

Bundled in a sentence

• The courier bundled the parcels together to save on postage.

• The guards bundled the protester out of the building.

• The broadband and phone plan came bundled at a lower monthly rate.

• The children were bundled into the back of the car before the rain started.

Where does bundled come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the past tense and past participle of the verb 'bundle', which first appears in English in the 1400s as a noun meaning a collection of things tied together. The word is closely linked to the Middle Dutch 'bundel' and the Old English 'byndelle', both of which trace back to the same Germanic root that gives us 'bind', literally meaning to fasten or tie. The underlying idea has always been physical: loose items gathered and secured into one manageable lump. Over time the verb stretched from tying sticks or cloth into figurative senses such as hurrying someone along ('bundled into a car') and, in modern commerce, packaging several products or services together for a single price. The doubled 'd' you might expect to drop is actually preserved: 'bundle' already ends in 'le', so the spelling simply adds a tidy '-d', leaving 'bundled' rather than any tricky consonant doubling.

How the word is built

• bundle (from Germanic bind: to tie together)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)