Jumble means a confused mixture of things all mixed together without any order or organization. Imagine emptying your backpack onto your bed: textbooks, pencils, snack wrappers, and crumpled papers all pile up in a chaotic heap. That messy pile is a jumble.

You might find a jumble of toys scattered across a younger sibling's bedroom floor, or a jumble of thoughts racing through your mind when you're excited or worried about something. Wires behind a computer often become a jumble of tangled cords. After a windstorm, fallen branches might lie in a jumble on the sidewalk.

The word also works as a verb. When you jumble things up, you mix them together carelessly. If you jumble the pieces from three different puzzles into one box, good luck sorting them out later.

A word jumble is a popular type of puzzle where letters are scrambled, and you need to unscramble them to find the hidden word. For example, “LEBMUJ” is a jumble of the letters in “JUMBLE.”