playfully

1. 1.

   in a playful manner

   “she loosened the half-hoop of diamonds on her left hand third finger and held it out to him playfully”

Questions about playfully

What does playfully mean?

playfully means "in a playful manner".

How many syllables are in playfully?

playfully has 3 syllables: play-ful-ly. The stress falls on "play". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪfəli/.

Is playfully a common word?

playfully 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.