play someone false
"play-someone-false" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“play someone false” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-play-someone-false · play someone false · English
play someone false · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | play someone false |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “play someone false” in English
Rare enough to double-check
play someone false is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for play someone false in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is play someone false, spelled P-L-A-Y- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E- -F-A-L-S-E.
Definition
- 1To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how play someone false appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.