Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

playwrighting

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.02 in modern English

Syllables: play-wright-ing
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Writing plays: the craft of a playwright

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Driving Miss Daisy won this year's Pulitzer Prize for playwrighting."
"He pays homage to feminist playwrights such as Ntozake Shange and Caryl Churchill for bringing a new vitality and innovation to playwrighting — further enhancing theatre's power to affect us."

Etymology

From playwright + -ing.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does playwrighting mean?: Writing plays: the craft of a playwright
Where does playwrighting come from?: From playwright + -ing.

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