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unfunny

adjective

unfunny is spelled U-N-F-U-N-N-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, unfunny means “Not funny” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unfunny?

Letters7: U-N-F-U-N-N-Y
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 44,767th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is unfunny?

Unfunny appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 44,767th 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 unfunny?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-unfunny.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of unfunny

  • unfunnier comparative
  • more unfunny comparative
  • unfunniest superlative
  • most unfunny superlative

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

What does unfunny mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Not funny

    Edward told an unfunny knock-knock joke that made his brother groan.

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

Unfunny in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchpas drôle
Germanunlustig
Spanishno chistoso, sin gracejo, sin graciosidad, insulso, soso, chirle

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 unfunny come from?

From un- + funny.

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

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