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playin'

/ˈpleɪ.ɪn/

playin' is the pronunciation spelling of playing.

Meaning of playing

Noun

playing (plural playings)

  1. (gerund) An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.
    • […] the Nielsen figures show that average viewership across all playings fell by only 40 percent and that total viewership of the entire season’s episodes fell by only 20 percent.2009 January 19, Edward Wyatt, “‘Big Love’ Gets a Big Tie to Real World”, in New York Times

Forms of playin'

alternative formplayin

Words that rhyme with playin'

Questions about playin'

What is playin' the pronunciation spelling of?
Playin' is the pronunciation spelling of playing.
How do you pronounce playin'?
Playin' is pronounced /ˈpleɪ.ɪn/.

Words near playin' in the dictionary

  1. playhead
  2. playheads
  3. playhouse
  4. playhouses
  5. playin
  6. playin'
  7. playing
  8. playing a part
  9. playing a role
  10. playing a rôle
  11. playing about

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Adapted from Wiktionary: playin' (page history and authors); playing (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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