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petplay

noun

petplay is spelled P-E-T-P-L-A-Y: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, petplay means “A form of roleplay (often sexual but not always) in which one or more players take on the role of an animal, especially as the pet of another” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in petplay?

Letters7: P-E-T-P-L-A-Y
In writingabout once in every 72 million words; the 269,040th 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 petplay?

Petplay appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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).

How do you pronounce petplay?

  • 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-pet_play.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of petplay

  • pet-play
  • pet play

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

What does petplay mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A form of roleplay (often sexual but not always) in which one or more players take on the role of an animal, especially as the pet of another.

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

Where does petplay come from?

From pet + play.

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

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