word play

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   playing on words or speech sounds

   Broaderplay

Questions about word play

What does word play mean?

word play means "playing on words or speech sounds".

Is word play a common word?

word play 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.