Subdirectories of Wordplay:
Categories related to Recreation: Humor: Wordplay: Arts: Education: Language Arts: Games (5) Games: Board Games: Words and Trivia: Scrabble: Tips and Word Lists (19) Recreation: Humor: Useless Pages: Language (10) Reference: Dictionaries: Acronyms (46) Shopping: Home and Garden: Kitchen and Dining: Gadgets: Magnets: Magnetic Word Kits (4) Websites on Wordplay: Answers to Rhetorical Questions Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects. Before and After The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight". 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. The Collective Noun Page Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. Corsinet.com Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. Dave's Fun Words Categorized list of words which are fun to say. Dislexicon Word Generator Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them. Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections. 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. Family Travel Games A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed. Faulkner or Machine Translation? A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English. Fun With Words Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia. Funny Names Site Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats. Funnyname.com A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book. Fun-with-words.com Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. Gadzillion Things to Think About 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions. Humour Articles Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams. Keepers of Lists A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public. Language Fun Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances. LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected. Loquacious Lipograms Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter. Lost in Translation See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results. The Mother of All Excuses Place Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes. Ms-Sam-Antics Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included. National Public Radio New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge. "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." How to say this phrase in various languages. Opundo Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour. Phobias Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. Piece of Pi MadLibs Site featuring a collection of madlibs. Sanskritpuns99 A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works. Sayings and Rhetoric Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. Scorpio Tales Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. Stink Pink Questions have answers with two rhyming words. Stupid Questions Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. The Tate Family Members Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. Text Messages A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. Thinking on Words A whimsical view on some words and expressions. Unscramble.net Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online. Untruisms and One-Trick Words Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'. Vocab Vitamins A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it. Vocal Names Riddles Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words. Word Games Software Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows. 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. Word Skit Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations. 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. The Word Spy Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. Wordage: The Game of Words Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths. Word-Jumble.com Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers. Wordorium A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
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