humorless
"humorless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humorless” is uncommon English (frequency #73,279 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,279
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
Corpus desk
Index EN-humorless · humorless · English
humorless · rank #73,279 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,279
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hydrodynamics
Nearest frequency peer: hydrodynamics (+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 “humorless”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hospitalisa…
hospitalisation
26,728 corpus weight
- hotch
hotch
26,725 corpus weight
- humorless
humorless
26,722 corpus weight
- hydrodynami…
hydrodynamics
26,721 corpus weight
- Ibaraki
Ibaraki
26,719 corpus weight
- Ibarra
Ibarra
26,718 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humorless” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humorless |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,279 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humorless” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humorless is uncommon English at frequency #73,279 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.".
humorless has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From humor + -less. The correct English form is humorless, spelled H-U-M-O-R-L-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humorless appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He watched the little dog's antics with a humorless stare.
At the risk of seeming humorless, we would like to point out some problems with the "bisexuality" insurance cartoon which appeared in the April Fool's issue of GCN.
Etymology
From humor + -less.
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).