humorous
/ˈhjuːməɹəs/adjective
humorous is spelled H-U-M-O-R-O-U-S. The wrong spelling people search most is humerous: about 1,210 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Humorous is an adjective meaning “Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny”.
How many letters and syllables are in humorous?
| Letters | 8: H-U-M-O-R-O-U-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, humerous, about 1,210 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 do you spell humorous?
Humorous is spelled H-U-M-O-R-O-U-S. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 4 in 10 of the searches for humorous in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is humorous?
Humorous appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th 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 humorous?
- UK /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
- US /ˈhjuːməɹəs/
Humorous has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-humorous.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with humorous
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: humerus (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: humourous.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with humorous?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as humorous from its last stressed vowel (/uməɹəs/):
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 humorous
- more humorous comparative
- most humorous superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does humorous mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
The waiters were so humorous - one even did a backflip for us, when we asked him.
- 2
Showing humor; witty, jocular.
- 3
obsoleteDamp or watery.
- 4
obsoleteDependent on or caused by one's humour or mood; capricious, whimsical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Humorous in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | humoristique, amusant |
| German | humorvoll |
| Portuguese | humorístico |
| Spanish | divertido, gracioso, humorista, humorístico, humoroso , cómico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does humorous come from?
From Middle English humorous (compare Medieval Latin hūmorōsus), equivalent to humor + -ous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).