looney
adjective, noun
looney is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of loony” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-O-N-E-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.0 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does looney mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of loony.
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of loony.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce looney?
Looney has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of looney
- more looney comparative
- most looney superlative
- looneys plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is looney?
Looney appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with looney
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: loony.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does looney come from?
At least from 1829.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).