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funny

/ˈfʌni/adjective, noun, adverb

funny is spelled F-U-N-N-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is funni: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 244 of all searches for the word. Funny is an adjective meaning “Amusing; humorous; comical”.

How many letters and syllables are in funny?

Letters5: F-U-N-N-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, funni, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell funny?

Funny is spelled F-U-N-N-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 190 of the searches for funny in either form.

funnythe right spelling24,570 searches a month
funnii in place of y100 searches a month
phunnyan extra p, h in place of f20 searches a month
fnuuyu and n swapped, u in place of n10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is funny?

Funny appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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).

How do you pronounce funny?

  • US /ˈfʌni/
  • /ˈfʊni/
  • /ˈfʌne/

Funny 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-funny.wav, En-us-funny.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with funny?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as funny from its last stressed vowel (/ʌni/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of funny

  • funnier comparative
  • funniest superlative
  • funnies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does funny mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Amusing; humorous; comical.

    I know you'll enjoy chatting with her – she's really funny and smart.

  2. 2

    Strange or unusual, often in an unpleasant way.

    The milk smelt funny so I poured it away.

  3. 3

    IrelandUKinformalShowing unexpected resentment.

    Near-synonyms: touchy, tetchy

  4. 4

    derogatoryoffensiveHomosexual: gay.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA joke.

  2. 2

    informalA comic strip.

  3. 3

    Humor in general.

    Where's the funny? Your meme sucks.

  4. 4

    IrelandUKdatedA narrow, clinker-built double-ender for sculling.

adverb

  1. 1

    nonstandardIn an unusual manner; strangely.

  2. 2

    derogatoryoffensiveIn a manner seen as being typical of a homosexual, or indicating homosexuality.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Funny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchdrôle, amusant, rigolo, marrant (amusing; comical), étrange (strange; unusual), blague (joke)
Germanlustig (amusing; comical), komisch, merkwürdig, seltsam, eigenartig (strange; unusual)
Portugueseengraçado, divertido (amusing; comical), estranho (strange; unusual)
Spanishdivertido, cómico, gracioso, chistoso, desternillante, tronchante (amusing; comical)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does funny come from?

From fun + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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