Say, what? 19 words totally jumbled by toddlers!

Kids are adorable, right? Ok, perhaps not all of the time, but listening to children’s language develop is amazing. When toddlers mispronounce everyday words it can be truly gorgeous, or outright embarrassing!

I asked my Facebook fans to share the words their toddlers mangle.

Here are 19 words totally jumbled by toddlers. This is the non-sweary version. It seems kids have a tendency to unintentionally drop the f-bomb, fork or truck, anyone?

19 words totally jumbled by toddlers:

Wink wink – oink oink, the usual sound made by a pig!
Wash facer – face washer.
Pushions – a mash-up of cushions and pillows.
Rainbrella – umbrella. I personally think rainbrella is genius, I might add it to my own vocabulary!
Bends – Elbows. I guess the very function of an elbow is to bend.
Chicken monkeys – Chipmunks.
Australian ‘accident’ – Meaning she has an Australian accent! This one is so adorable.
Fridge – Bridge.
Umpire – Vampire. Dressing up as an umpire for Halloween seems far less sinister than a vampire.
Trumpets – Crumpets. Breakfast suddenly got very noisy.
Grangrad – Granddad.
Mickmick – picnic.
Tentacles – testicles. I can hear it now. A little boy, falling off a bike and crushing his boy bits, ‘ouch, my tentacles’. How would you keep a straight face??
Stick tank – sticky tape.
Destructions – instructions. I suspect there’s a parent or two out there who has wanted to destroy some instructions!
Busgetti – spaghetti.
Strangled Egg – scrambled egg.
Infection – reflection. Just imagine your child innocently gazing into a pond and exclaiming, ‘mummy I can see my infection’.
Milks – nipples. Normalising breastfeeding with this one!

Everyone give me an awww! Do you have any words totally jumbled by toddlers to add to the list? SHARE with us in the comments below.

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20 Comments

- - meedee said
  - 05 Sep 2021
    7:50 am
upajays = Pajamas

- - nealsq said
  - 31 Oct 2016
    8:51 pm
my son had made an octopus in kinder one day, he was very proud of his work but had made me cry, he came running up to me with his art work in his hands yelling out that his octopus had blue testicles! Well of course I was in hysterics and had to go in and speak to his teachers and let them share in my hysterics. Ahhh kids say the darndest things!!

- - ella12 said
  - 06 Sep 2016
    12:38 pm
Love it, they say the funniest things!

- - mom153507 said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    10:42 pm
How adorable is it when the kids jumble their words.
My siblings & I, & now our own children have all called cordial cordigal.
& spaghetti became pasketti.
My little boy also calls the TV a TB haha!

- - mum4107 said
  - 30 Apr 2016
    7:40 pm
How gorgeous are these. My toddler says nanas instead of manners

- - Nas01 said
  - 28 Apr 2016
    7:04 pm
AWWW.. No seriously these are sooo cute. My kids have all said besgetti instead of spaghetti.

- - amymc said
  - 16 Apr 2016
    6:27 pm
My eldest (now aged 5 years) used to come out with some hilarious muddled words. She still occasionally does, but it was even funnier when her younger sister (2 years younger) started to talk and just accept big sisters garbled words!
Sisel = bottle
Goog-goog = chocolate
Lilo = milo
Fye = Skye (little sisters name)
Daddle = daddy cuddle word mash-up

I wish I could remember them all! And the funny sayings she would use!

- - aprilb1 said
  - 16 Apr 2016
    12:51 am
so cute, i can’t wait til my little guy starts talking

- - Some_Toss said
  - 01 Apr 2016
    11:03 am
Bahahahaha! That is so utterly adorable! I love it when kids try to say something new, and mush it up! (Give them a naughty word by accident, though, they’ll nail it first go!) LOL!

- - serotonin said
  - 31 Mar 2016
    11:48 pm
Haha these are so funny! I’d love to see a book filled with these. Be a hilarious read!

- - rovermum said
  - 15 Mar 2016
    4:15 pm
My son used to say ‘fruck’ for truck. Gee this worried me when he yelled it out loud in public!!

- - mom176380 said
  - 14 Mar 2016
    4:21 pm
My daughters says alligator for elevator
And whilst on holiday there was a sting roll in the water (sting ray/spring roll)

- - mom71820 said
  - 13 Mar 2016
    9:27 am
Lol. Chicken monkeys

- - mom101628 said
  - 11 Mar 2016
    9:17 pm
My children’s favourite was hopsital for hospital.

- - VernaB said
  - 11 Mar 2016
    12:59 pm
Haha what a cute age.