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fourplay

/ˈfɔː(ɹ)pleɪ/noun

fourplay is a noun meaning “Synonym of quad play” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-U-R-P-L-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 43 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does fourplay mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of quad play.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce fourplay?

  • /ˈfɔː(ɹ)pleɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-foreplay.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is fourplay?

Fourplay appears about once in every 43 million words in written English, the 201,693rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fourplay come from?

From four + play, after triple play (and perhaps punning on foreplay).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).