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PBEM

PBEM is the initialism of play-by-email.

Meaning of play-by-email

Adjective

play-by-email (not comparable)

  1. Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through email.
    Synonyms:
    PBeM

Adjective capitalized: PBeM

PBeM (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of play-by-email.

Questions about PBEM

What is PBEM the initialism of?
PBEM is the initialism of play-by-email.
What part of speech is PBEM?
PBEM is an adjective.

Words near PBEM in the dictionary

  1. PBCOM
  2. PBCs
  3. PBDE
  4. PBDEs
  5. PBed
  6. PBEM
  7. pBerlin
  8. pbf
  9. PBG
  10. PBGC
  11. PBGM

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: PBEM (page history and authors); PBeM (page history and authors); play-by-email (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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