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word plays

word plays is the plural of word play.

Meaning of word play

Noun

word play (countable and uncountable, plural word plays)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see word, play.
  2. A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.

Questions about word plays

What is word plays the plural of?
Word plays is the plural of word play.

Words near word plays in the dictionary

  1. word painter
  2. word painters
  3. word painting
  4. word paintings
  5. word play
  6. word plays
  7. word problem
  8. word problems
  9. word process
  10. word processed
  11. word processes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word plays (page history and authors); word play (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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