plaything

Other forms of plaything

plural

playthings·

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 plaything

What does plaything mean?

plaything means "an artifact designed to be played with".

How many syllables are in plaything?

plaything has 2 syllables: play-thing. The stress falls on "play". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪˌθɪŋ/.

What is another word for plaything?

Close synonyms include toy. 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 plaything a common word?

plaything 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.

What rhymes with plaything?

1 word rhymes with plaything. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.