FUNNIES

Definition: FUNNIES

FUNNIES

Plural

1. Of Funny

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Modern Usage: FUNNIES

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Archie's TV Funnies (1971)

Matty's Funday Funnies (1959)

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies (1985)

The Fabulous Funnies (1978)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: FUNNIES

Domain	Title
Books	Great Funnies History of Film Comedy (reference) Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies (reference) Playboy Funnies 2003 Calendar (reference) Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930S-1950s (reference) Ultimate Cat Book: Lemmer's Fantastic Folio of Feline Funnies (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies (reference) Fast Funnies (reference) Sunday Morning Funnies Popeye (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Country Funnies (reference) Front Porch Funnies (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: FUNNIES

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Cartoon panel from Featuring the Funnies exhibition. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: FUNNIES

"FUNNIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FUNNIES" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	100%	17	85,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: FUNNIES

Expression using "FUNNIES": the funnies. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FUNNIES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
funnies	1,552	video funnies	9
bill funnies	613	foggy funnies	9
foggys funnies	38	funnies insane	8
adult funnies	35	cat funnies	8
foggies funnies	23	picture funnies	8
funnies uncle	23	animated funnies	7
cartoon funnies	21	birthday funnies	6
funnies office	17	computer funnies	6
day father funnies	17	baby funnies	6
joke funnies	16	america funnies video	6
sunday funnies	13	funnies work	5
free funnies	12	comedy funnies uncle	5
flash funnies	12	golf funnies	5
email funnies	12	docs funnies	5
funnies sex	11	funnies point power	5
good clean funnies	10	animal funnies	5
christian funnies	10	help desk funnies	5
club comedy funnies uncle	10	daily funnies	5
duncan funnies	9	funnies workplace	4
friday funnies	9	froggys funnies	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: FUNNIES

Language		Translations for "FUNNIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏كاريكاتور (caricature, cartoon). (various references)

French		bandes dessinés. (various references)

German		Freude (blitheness, delight, enjoyment, fun, gladness, glee, gratification, happiness, joice, joy, joyousness, mirth, pleasure), witzseite, witze (gags, jokes, joking, wits, witticisms). (various references)

Hebrew		ציורי ב�"יח�". (various references)

Hungarian		rajzsorozat. (various references)

Italian		fumetti. (various references)

Pig Latin		unniesfay

Portuguese		páginas de passatempo (num jornal). (various references)

Russian		острота (acridity, acridness, acuity, acuteness, bon mot, fineness, joke, mot, one-liner, pepper, pepperiness, piquancy, poignancy, pungency, quip, sharpness, trenchancy, wisecrack, witticism). (various references)

Spanish		tiras cómicas. (various references)

Swedish		tecknade serier (funny). (various references)

Turkish		fıkra (anecdote, article, clause, joke, paragraph), komik lâf, çizgi roman. (various references)

Ukrainian		гумористчний розділ. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: FUNNIES

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FUNNIES": funniest. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"FUNNIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fennie, fenniks, fennys, Finnies, finnis, fonis, fundis, Funia, Funiak, Funis, funni, funnie, funnium, hunnies, Junonius, lunnies. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FUNNIES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: ennuis, infuse.
	-2 letters: ennui, fines, neifs, nines.
	-3 letters: fens, feus, fine, fins, funs, fuse, inns, neif, nine, nuns, seif, sine, sunn.
	-4 letters: efs, ens, fen, feu, fie, fin, fun, ifs, inn, ins, nun, nus, sei, sen, sin, sue, sun, uns, use.
	-5 letters: ef, en, es, if, in, is, ne, nu, si, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: finespun, funniest.
	+2 letters: funkiness, funniness, influents, unfitness.
	+3 letters: influences, influenzas, reinfusing, sinfulness, unfairness, unfinished.
	+4 letters: funkinesses, funninesses, gainfulness, infinitudes, interfusing, interfusion, mindfulness, painfulness, unfastening, unfitnesses, unfurnished, uniformness.
	+5 letters: fancifulness, fecundations, functionless, influentials, infrequences, insufficient, interfusions, munificences, nonfluencies, refurnishing, sinfulnesses, unfairnesses, unscientific.
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