Meanings
- pluralplural of charade
- uncountableA game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess.
[…] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
1909, Booth Tarkington, Beasley's Christmas Party
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of charade
Synonyms: acting charades, dumb charades
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan xarada
- xaradagame
Chinese Mandarin 比手畫腳 /比手画脚
- 比手畫腳 /比手画脚 (zbǐshǒuhuàjiǎo)game
Czech šarády
- šarádygame
Finnish pantomiimi
- pantomiimigame
French mime
- mimegame
German Scharade, pantomimisches Ratespiel
- Scharadegame
- pantomimisches Ratespielgame
Hungarian kitalálós játék, most mutasd meg
- kitalálós játékgame
- most mutasd meggame
Japanese シャレード, ジェスチャーゲーム
- シャレード (sharēdo)game
- ジェスチャーゲーム (jesuchā gēmu)game
Korean 몸으로 말해요
- 몸으로 말해요game
Persian پانتومیم
- پانتومیم (pântomim)game
Polish kalambury
- kalamburygame
Portuguese mímica
- mímicagame
Russian шара́да
- шара́да (šaráda)game
Spanish charadas
- charadasgame
Swedish charad, levande charad
- charadgame
- levande charadgame
Turkish sessiz sinema
- sessiz sinemagame
Cite this entry
charades. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/charades
“charades.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/charades. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “charades,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/charades.
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