buffoonery

Questions about buffoonery

What does buffoonery mean?

buffoonery means "acting like a clown or buffoon".

How many syllables are in buffoonery?

buffoonery has 4 syllables and divides as buf-foo-ne-ry under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for buffoonery?

Close synonyms include clowning, japery, frivolity, harlequinade, prank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buffoonery a common word?

buffoonery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.