funner
"funner" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“funner” is uncommon English (frequency #94,875 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,875
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - comparative form of fun: more fun
Corpus desk
Index EN-funner · funner · English
funner · rank #94,875 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,875
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fumarate
Nearest frequency peer: fumarate (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “funner”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fowey
Fowey
5,131 corpus weight
- fumarate
fumarate
5,127 corpus weight
- funner
funner
5,126 corpus weight
- furr
furr
5,125 corpus weight
- furze
furze
5,124 corpus weight
- Galatia
Galatia
5,122 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “funner” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | funner |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #94,875 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “funner” in English
Rare enough to double-check
funner is uncommon English at frequency #94,875 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "comparative form of fun: more fun".
No generated misspelling entries exist for funner in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is funner, spelled F-U-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1comparative form of fun: more fun
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how funner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1979, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Wyoming, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency "I wish I would have played basketball when I was out. It's a lot more funner."
1992, Ana Malinow Rajkovic, Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN029275146X&id=6MVFwbhxaT0C&pg=PP15&lpg=PP15&dq=funner&sig=d5BINTBWGlKwMJu78EG3p1TSGWg Sounds like a great vacation, doesn’t it? It would be much funner, undoubtedly, to spend four weeks learning intensive Spanish in Guadalajara... but what do…
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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