playwright
/ˈpleɪˌɹaɪt/noun
playwright is spelled P-L-A-Y-W-R-I-G-H-T. The wrong spelling people search most is playwrite: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Playwright is a noun meaning “A writer and creator of theatrical plays”. The plural of playwright is playwrights.
How many letters and syllables are in playwright?
| Letters | 10: P-L-A-Y-W-R-I-G-H-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, playwrite, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell playwright?
Playwright is spelled P-L-A-Y-W-R-I-G-H-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for playwright in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is playwright?
Playwright appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 playwright?
- /ˈpleɪˌɹaɪt/
Playwright has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-playwright.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of playwright
- playwrights plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does playwright mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A writer and creator of theatrical plays.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate playwright?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of playwright: Wilde.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Playwright in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense writer of plays for the theatre:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | dramaturge, auteur dramatique |
| German | Bühnenautor, Bühnenautorin, Dramatiker, Dramatikerin, Schauspieldichter, Stückeschreiber |
| Portuguese | dramaturgo, dramaturga |
| Spanish | dramaturgo, dramaturga, autor teatral |
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 playwright come from?
From play + wright (“builder, craftsman”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).