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playgroup

noun

playgroup is spelled P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-P: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, playgroup means “A group of children who meet together for supervised play” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of playgroup is playgroups.

How many letters and syllables are in playgroup?

Letters9: P-L-A-Y-G-R-O-U-P
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th 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 playgroup?

Playgroup appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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).

Words people confuse with playgroup

Also written: play group (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of playgroup

  • playgroups plural

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

What does playgroup mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A group of children who meet together for supervised play.

  2. 2

    A group of gamers who meet together, especially for role-playing games.

  3. 3

    UKAn informal organised group providing care and activities for preschool children.

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

Where does playgroup come from?

From play + group.

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

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