Not even his father was spared from his wordplay.
Source: tatoeba (9182023)
Wordplay
Synonyms for "wordplay" (26 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (7)
Related words (13)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived from
2 entriesrelated to
8 entriesTranslations
22 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- игра на думи noun (humorous play on words)
- каламбур noun (humorous play on words)
Classical Nahuatl
2 entries- ahuillahtolli noun (humorous play on words)
- auillatolli noun (humorous play on words)
Danish
1 entries- ordspil noun (humorous play on words)
Estonian
2 entries- kalambuur noun (humorous play on words)
- sõnamäng noun (humorous play on words)
Finnish
1 entries- sanaleikki noun (humorous play on words)
French
1 entries- jeu de mots noun (humorous play on words)
German
1 entries- Wortspiel noun (humorous play on words)
Greek
1 entries- λογοπαίγνιο noun (humorous play on words)
Hungarian
1 entries- szójáték noun (humorous play on words)
Icelandic
1 entries- orðaleikur noun (humorous play on words)
Japanese
1 entries- 言葉遊び noun (humorous play on words)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- sēi noun (humorous play on words)
Korean
1 entries- 언어유희 noun (humorous play on words)
Polish
1 entries- gra słów noun (humorous play on words)
Portuguese
2 entries- jogo de palavras noun (humorous play on words)
- trocadilho noun (humorous play on words)
Spanish
1 entries- juego de palabras noun (humorous play on words)
Turkish
1 entries- kelime oyunu noun (humorous play on words)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chơi chữ noun (humorous play on words)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
There was a lot of wordplay.
Source: tatoeba (10355269)
Wordplay is not horseplay.
Source: tatoeba (10522422)
The super computer bested veteran Jeopardy champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in all categories: the arts, popular culture, science, geography, wordplay and more.
Source: tatoeba (11676084)
Showing 4 of 9 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.