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middlegame

noun

middlegame is spelled M-I-D-D-L-E-G-A-M-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, middlegame means “The period in a game between the opening and endgame” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of middlegame is middlegames.

How many letters and syllables are in middlegame?

Letters10: M-I-D-D-L-E-G-A-M-E
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is middlegame?

Middlegame appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Forms of middlegame

  • middlegames plural

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

What does middlegame mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The period in a game between the opening and endgame.

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

Middlegame in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the period in a game between the opening and endgame:

LanguageWords
GermanMittelspiel

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does middlegame come from?

From middle + game.

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

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