wordplay

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- 1.2 Noun

word +‎ play

wordplay (countable and uncountable, plural wordplays)

A humorous play on words; such plays on words collectively.
A witty verbal exchange; such exchanges collectively.

See also Wikisaurus:joke

pun
repartee

a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

pun, punning, paronomasia

fun, play, sport - verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport"

Classical Nahuatl: ahuillahtolli, auillatolli
French: jeu de mots (fr) m
German: Wortspiel (de) n
Hungarian: szójáték (hu)

Japanese: 言葉遊び (ことばあそび, kotoba asobi)
Portuguese: trocadilho (pt) m, jogo de palavras m
Turkish: kelime oyunu (tr)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Wordplay 
\Word"play`\, n.
   A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

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Moby Thesaurus II

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "wordplay":
   abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram,
   calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots,
   logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome,
   paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism

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