funnies

Other forms of funnies

plural

funnieses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about funnies

What does funnies mean?

funnies means "a sequence of drawings telling a story in a newspaper or comic book".

How many syllables are in funnies?

funnies has 2 syllables and divides as fun-nies under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for funnies?

Close synonyms include comic strip, cartoon strip, strip. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is funnies a common word?

funnies is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.