harlequinade

Questions about harlequinade

What does harlequinade mean?

harlequinade means "acting like a clown or buffoon".

How many syllables are in harlequinade?

harlequinade has 4 syllables and divides as har-leq-ui-nade 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 harlequinade?

Close synonyms include buffoonery, clowning, japery, frivolity, 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 harlequinade a common word?

harlequinade 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.