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longplay

noun

longplay is a noun meaning “A full recording of a video game being played from start to completion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-O-N-G-P-L-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of longplay is longplays.

What does longplay mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A full recording of a video game being played from start to completion.

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

How do you pronounce longplay?

  • US

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

Forms of longplay

  • longplays plural

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

How common is longplay?

Longplay appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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 longplay come from?

From long + play.

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