roleplayer
noun
roleplayer is a noun meaning “A person who plays roleplaying games” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-L-E-P-L-A-Y-E-R, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of roleplayer is roleplayers.
What does roleplayer mean?
noun
- 1
A person who plays roleplaying games.
- 2
Someone who holds, does, or acts a role.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of roleplayer
- roleplayers plural
- role player
- role-player
- rôle player
- rôle-player
- rôleplayer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is roleplayer?
Roleplayer appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Where does roleplayer come from?
From role + player.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).