humorless
"humorless" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humorless” is an uncommon English word, ranked #73,279 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #73,279
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lacking humor or levity; serious; not funny, amusing, amused, or lighthearted.
| 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) |
Where “humorless” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for humorless is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective. Corpus data places it at rank #73,279 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
Etymology
From humor + -less.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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Using “humorless”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-U-M-O-R-L-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.