fun-loving
"fun-loving" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fun-loving” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - That enjoys the pleasures of life; that seeks out and revels in fun.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fun-loving · fun-loving · English
fun-loving · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fun-loving |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fun-loving” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fun-loving is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "That enjoys the pleasures of life; that seeks out and revels in fun.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fun-loving, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is fun-loving, spelled F-U-N---L-O-V-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That enjoys the pleasures of life; that seeks out and revels in fun.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fun-loving appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
How different is the young, fun-loving, comical, quizzing, gallanting Captain Arthur Wellesley, when residing in his shooting lodge between Summerhill and Dangan, from the stern, cautious, careworn Fabius of the Peninsular war[.]
A few months later I went to see Meg at a local folk club […] where she played to a small audience of about 150. As always, she was vibrant, giving, funloving, but the political content was diminished and hopelessly subtle.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.