Wordplay

Wordplay Links

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'.
Wordage: The Game of Words: Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
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.
Fun-with-words.com: Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
SadMan Software: Wordplay: Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
Bovilexics.com: Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
List of Silly Names: Includes towns, marriages, silly science and universities. Accepts submissions.
Stink Pink: Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head.": How to say this phrase in various languages.
Vocab Vitamins: A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
Science Wordplay: Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle.
Humour Articles: Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
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.
National Public Radio: New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
Sources of the Word Yahoo: Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian.
Similes Galore: A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners.
Thinking on Words: A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
Language Fun: Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
Vocal Names Riddles: Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
Dictionary Of Wordplay: A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones.
Before and After: The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
Text Messages: A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
Family Travel Games: A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay: Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language.
Sayings and Rhetoric: Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
Opundo: Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
A Flock of Segers: Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies.
The Word Spy: Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
The Fictionary: Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
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.
Fun With Words: Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
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.
The Hooter List: Joe Bob Briggs offers a list of synonyms for the female breast.
Wordorium: A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
Gadzillion Things to Think About: 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
Unscramble.net: Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions: Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
Corsinet.com: Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
Answers to Rhetorical Questions: Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
Loquacious Lipograms: Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
Stupid Questions: Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
Faulkner or Machine Translation?: A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
Scorpio Tales: Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
Word Skit: Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
Obfuscations of Celebrated Oracular Utterings: Rewords familiar phrases, idioms, and aphorisms with grandiose, academic words and descriptions.
You Grok: Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein?s ?Stranger in a Strange Land.?
Condit's Linguistical Predicament: Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter.
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.
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.