humor
hu·mor/ˈhjuːmɚ/noun, verb
humor is spelled H-U-M-O-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables (hu·mor). It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “humor vs humour” about 480 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, humor means “US spelling of humour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of humor is humors.
How many letters and syllables are in humor?
| Letters | 5: H-U-M-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: hu·mor |
| In writing | 15 times per million words; the 5,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 common is humor?
Humor appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,206th 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 humor?
- UK /hjuː.mə(ɹ)/
- US /ˈhjuːmɚ/
- US /ˈjuːmɚ/
Humor has 2 syllables, split hu·mor in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-humor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with humor
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: humour.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with humor?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as humor from its last stressed vowel (/uməɹ/):
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 humor
- humors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- humoring participle, present
- humored participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does humor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USUS spelling of humour.
He was in a particularly vile humor that afternoon.
verb
- 1
USUS spelling of humour.
I know you don't believe my story, but humor me for a minute and imagine it to be true.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).