Synonyms for pun
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Noun
1. Play on words
Definitions
- n. 1
A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
The pun is the lowest form of wit.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- joke
Forms
- Plural
- puns → wordplays, paronomasias, ambiguities, calembours…
Example sentences
- wordplay Not even his father was spared from his wordplay.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| pun | rising | |
| wordplay | rising | |
| paronomasia | rising | |
| calembour | steady | |
| equivoque | steady | |
| paragram | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- quibble2
- 8 letters
- wordplay, paragram
- 9 letters
- ambiguity5, calembour, equivoque
- 11 letters
- paronomasia
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quibble2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- calembour
- Español
- retruécano
- Deutsch
- Kalauer
- Català
- joc de paraules