power play
"power-play" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“power play” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | power play |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “power play” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
power play is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
power play doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is power play, spelled P-O-W-E-R- -P-L-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Tactics used to magnify power or influence.
- 2A strategy or maneuver with a similar intention.
- 3A situation where a team has a numerical advantage on the ice due to one or more penalties given to the opposing team.
- 4A similar situation in other ball games, such as lacrosse, indoor soccer, rugby, and cricket.
- 5A play used to move the stones to the side of the sheet.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “power play”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-O-W-E-R- -P-L-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.