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: buf-foo-ne-ry. The stress falls on "foo".

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.