Sites in Wordplay
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.
Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
Piece of Pi MadLibs
Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
Phobias
Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Janet's Wordplay Site
Child-oriented articles, puzzles, and quizzes about having fun with words.
Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week.
Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages.
Humour Articles
Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
Sources of the word Yahoo
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Language Fun
Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Opundo
Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
Fun With Words
Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
Loquacious Lipograms
Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
The Hooter List
Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Gadzillion Things to Think About
10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions
Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions
Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
WordBall
The viewer competes against a computer in a baseball-like word-game.
Name Wordplay
Example: If Yoko Ono married Sonny Bono, she'd be Yoko Ono Bono.
Sanskrit Humor
Wordplay in, about or involving Sanskrit.
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings
Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
Lost in Translation
See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
Untruisms and One-Trick Words
Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
Ms-Sam-Antics
Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
Word Games Software
Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
Vocab Vitamins
A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
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.
Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
Funny Names Site
Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
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.
List of Silly Names
Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
Faulkner or Machine Translation?
A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
National Public Radio
New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
Thinking on Words
A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Vocal Names Riddles
Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Before and After
The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: " day " becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Family Travel Games
A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
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. |
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