roleplay

Other forms of roleplay

past tense

roleplayed·

present participle

roleplaying·

third person

roleplays·

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 roleplay

What does roleplay mean?

roleplay means "perform on a stage or theater".

How many syllables are in roleplay?

roleplay has 3 syllables: ro-le-play. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for roleplay?

Close synonyms include act, play, playact. 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 roleplay a common word?

roleplay 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.