funny money
"funny-money" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“funny money” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Counterfeit money.
Corpus desk
Index EN-funny-money · funny money · English
funny money · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | funny money |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “funny money” in English
Rare enough to double-check
funny money is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for funny money in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is funny money, spelled F-U-N-N-Y- -M-O-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Counterfeit money.
- 2Money obtained in a devious or sneaky manner.
- 3An outrageously high price.
- 4Banknotes of any foreign currency.
- 5A highly inflated currency.
- 6Play money.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how funny money appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They wanted funny money for it, so I refused.
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.