Anagrams, ambigrams, word trivia, puns, ambigrams, and palindromes to name a few. Often humorous but may also satisfy obsessive-compulsive cravings....
This page was last updated on July 19th, 2008
This page was last updated on July 19th, 2008
Wordplay (from Humor)
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"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
The Hooter List
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Dislexicon Word Generator
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Euler's Day Off
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Word Soup Without Vowels
A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented.
Lost in Translation
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
List of Silly Names
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Sources of the word Yahoo
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Family Travel Games
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Vocal Names Riddles
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
Word Masher
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Loquacious Lipograms
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Faulkner or Machine Translation?
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Name Wordplay
Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
Vocab Vitamins
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Ms-Sam-Antics
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
Before and After
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
Word Games Software
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
Phobias
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Sanskrit Humor
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
Janet's Wordplay Site
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
WordBall
The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Thinking on Words
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
How to say this phrase in various languages.
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
A 12x13 diagram contains various letters in it--without vowels. Find as many words in the diagram and e-mail in your answers. Also Spanish-oriented.
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
Scrambles your text but leaves the first and last letter of each word intact. The result is readable if you have a good vocabulary.
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
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