humorlos
[huˈmoːɐ̯loːs]
The verdict
“humorlos” is uncommon German (frequency #64,371 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,371
- frequency rank, German
- 3,372
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ohne Sinn für Humor, nicht zu Späßen aufgelegt
Corpus desk
Index DE-humorlos · humorlos · German
humorlos · rank #64,371 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,371
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,372
- PHOTO-FINISH hundertstel
Nearest frequency peer: hundertstel (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „humorlos“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- horrenden
horrenden
35,635 corpus weight
- Hotdog
Hotdog
35,633 corpus weight
- housing
housing
35,632 corpus weight
- humorlos
humorlos
35,630 corpus weight
- hundertstel
hundertstel
35,629 corpus weight
- Huthi
Huthi
35,626 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „humorlos“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humorlos |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [huˈmoːɐ̯loːs] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,371 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „humorlos“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
humorlos is uncommon German at frequency #64,371 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed [huˈmoːɐ̯loːs]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "ohne Sinn für Humor, nicht zu Späßen aufgelegt".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for humorlos, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is humorlos, spelled H-U-M-O-R-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1ohne Sinn für Humor, nicht zu Späßen aufgelegt
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humorlos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Den Deutschen wird gerne nachgesagt, dass sie immer pünktlich und humorlos seien.
Völlig humorlos schoss er den Ball volley ins linke Toreck.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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