Well, after all that tension, I thought we could all use some stress relief, eh? Every once in a while, after all, you do have to let it out.

The other day I was reading a blog post that mentioned making someone laugh. “Not just guffawing, but outright laughing,” they clarified (okay, that’s not what they said, but that’s basically the idea). But that note left me scratching my head: isn’t guffawing harder than laughing?

So today I bring you a game! From two thesasauruses (those are dinosaurs that know a lot of words), I gathered all the synonyms for laughter:

amusement be in stitches break up burst cachinnate cackle chortle chuckle convulsed crack up crow die laughing fit fracture gesture giggle glee grin guffaw heehaw

hilarity howl merriment mirth peal rejoicing roar roll in the aisles scream shout shriek snicker snigger snort sound split one’s sides titter wakka wakka wakka whoop yuck

In the comments, let’s rank these from the most hilarity/hardest laughter to lightest. (And feel free to leave out ones you don’t know. “Cachinnate”?!) Note that this list includes both nouns and verbs.

Photo by Jackson Carson