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funsies

noun

funsies is a noun meaning “The act of doing something fun or for fun, instead of in earnest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-U-N-S-I-E-S, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does funsies mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The act of doing something fun or for fun, instead of in earnest.

    Let's just play for funsies.

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

How do you pronounce funsies?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-funsies.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is funsies?

Funsies appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Where does funsies come from?

From fun + -sies.

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