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lolwut

interjection

lolwut is an interjection meaning “Alternative letter-case form of LOLWUT” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-L-W-U-T, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does lolwut mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of LOLWUT.

interjection

as LOLWUT
  1. 1

    A confused or sardonic response to a statement that is confusing, exaggerated, or idiotic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of lolwut

  • lol wut

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is lolwut?

Lolwut appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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).

Where does lolwut come from?

From lol + wut, a corruption of LOL and what.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).