Is it funnest or more fun?

Many people, perhaps most people, strongly prefer more fun and most fun as the comparative and superlative forms of fun. Still, plenty of others label things funner and funnest. Many dictionaries acknowledge this use, but still label the adjective form as informal. Here are some examples of fun used as an adjective.

Is funnest a Scrabble word?

Yes, funnest is in the scrabble dictionary.

Is there a word stupidest?

Stupider and stupidest are real words in good standing. While there are many (contradictory) rules on comparative and superlative adjectives, there is no rule against stupider and stupidest, and the words have a long history of usage.

Is funnest a word in the dictionary?

Funner and funnest have seen usage as real words for over a century, but neither are formally entered in the dictionary (yet). In fact, fun wasn’t even an adjective describing something enjoyable until the 19th century, and from there its superlative forms eventually emerged to be argued over.

Is funner proper English?

Funner & funnest I am sad that “funner” and “funnest” are not proper words. They are lots of fun to use anyway. We may often use fun as an adjective today (‘I had a fun time’), but when the word first entered the English language at the end of the 17th century it was mostly used as a verb or a noun.

Are funfunner and Funnest real words?

Funner and Funnest are (Sometimes) Real Our entry for adjectival fun states “ sometimes funner; sometimes funnest.” This is because there are many people who do indeed use these words, and there are many others who, while they may allow that fun is an adjective, strongly prefer that things be ‘more fun,’ or ‘most fun.’

Why does the word ‘Funnest’ sound strange?

“Funnest” sounds strange simply because it’s rarely heard, other than from children (who are usually going to be corrected to say “most fun” instead, thereby ensuring that they too will come to regard “funnest” as strange, when they will have long forgotten that they uttered it when they were small.)

Is the word ‘fun’ a noun or an adjective?

Some folk find it fun to use the word fun as an adjective. Others find it funner to inform this group that fun is properly a noun, not an adjective, and even if it is used in this way the comparative form of funner is an abomination. And sometimes the first group finds it funnest of all to tell the anti- fun brigade to go stick it in their hats.

What’s the difference between fun and Funner?

As reported by the NOAD, fun is used as adjective in informal contexts; its superlative is funnest, while funner is its comparative. Funner makes me shudder. For some reason “more fun” is firmly embedded in my psyche as the correct expression. “funnest” doesn’t raise the same reaction, for reasons I don’t understand.