Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

choose your own adventure

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English

Syllables: choose y-our own ad-ven-ture
IPA

37

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.

Etymology

From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format.

Inflected Forms

choose your own adventures (plural) choose-your-own-adventure (alternative)

Synonyms

CYOA

Questions

What does choose your own adventure mean?: An interactive book or visual novel written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome.
Where does choose your own adventure come from?: From the Choose Your Own Adventure series of children's gamebooks which introduced this format.

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