humorously
/ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/
"humorously" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“humorously” is uncommon English (frequency #52,389 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,389
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - In a humorous manner; jocularly
Corpus desk
Index EN-humorously · humorously · English
humorously · rank #52,389 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,389
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH Huda
Nearest frequency peer: Huda (-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 “humorously”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- housemaid
housemaid
47,616 corpus weight
- howler
howler
47,615 corpus weight
- hubbub
hubbub
47,614 corpus weight
- Huda
Huda
47,613 corpus weight
- humorously
humorously
47,612 corpus weight
- hydrophilic
hydrophilic
47,609 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “humorously” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | humorously |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,389 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “humorously” in English
Rare enough to double-check
humorously is uncommon English at frequency #52,389 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈhju.məɹ.ɪs.li/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "In a humorous manner; jocularly".
humorously doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From humorous + -ly. The correct English form is humorously, spelled H-U-M-O-R-O-U-S-L-Y.
Definition
- 1In a humorous manner; jocularly
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how humorously appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He always managed to make people laugh at the tea table - he could pull faces so humorously.
But let’s fast-forward two decades and look at a couple of interesting tokiponidos (as these descendants are humorously termed) that were both proposed in mid 2020.
Etymology
From humorous + -ly.
Antonyms
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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