lulz
/lʌlz/
"lulz" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lulz” is uncommon English (frequency #56,882 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,882
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lulz · lulz · English
lulz · rank #56,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,882
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lurie
Nearest frequency peer: Lurie (+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 “lulz”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- loach
loach
43,122 corpus weight
- loyally
loyally
43,121 corpus weight
- lulz
lulz
43,119 corpus weight
- Lurie
Lurie
43,118 corpus weight
- Luttrell
Luttrell
43,117 corpus weight
- Lyles
Lyles
43,115 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lulz” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lulz |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /lʌlz/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #56,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lulz” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lulz is uncommon English at frequency #56,882 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /lʌlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for lulz, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Alteration of lol using the suffix -z, a deliberately nonstandard variant of the plural marker -s. The correct English form is lulz, spelled L-U-L-Z.
Definition
- 1Fun; amusement; humor; especially schadenfreude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lulz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Anonymous gets big lulz from pulling random pranks.
the antics of the Goons and /b/tards might actually sharpen our ability to make that distinction. To those who think the griefers' handiwork is simply inexcusable: Well, being inexcusable is, after all, the griefers' job. Ours is to figure out that caring too much only gives them more of the one thing they crave: the lulz.
Etymology
Alteration of lol using the suffix -z, a deliberately nonstandard variant of the plural marker -s.
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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