playdough
noun
playdough is a noun meaning “Modeling clay for children” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-L-A-Y-D-O-U-G-H, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of playdough is playdoughs.
What does playdough mean?
noun
- 1
Modeling clay for children.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of playdough
- playdoughs plural
- playdoh
- play-doh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is playdough?
Playdough appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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).
Playdough in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense children's modeling clay:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | pâte à modeler |
| German | Knete, Knetmasse |
| Portuguese | massa de modelar, massinha |
| Spanish | plastilina |
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 playdough come from?
From play + dough.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).