playacting

Other forms of playacting

plural

playactings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about playacting

What does playacting mean?

playacting means "the performance of a part or role in a drama".

How many syllables are in playacting?

playacting has 2 syllables and divides as playac-ting 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 playacting?

Close synonyms include acting, playing, performing. 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 playacting a common word?

playacting is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.