Directory of Wordplay Resources

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Anagrams, word trivia, puns, ambigrams, and palindromes to name a few. Often humorous but may also satisfy obsessive-compulsive cravings.

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• Ambigrams
• Anagrams
• Brain Teasers
• Crosswords
• Cryptograms
• Humorous Poetry
• Humorous Quotations
• Insults
• Neologisms
• Online Games
• Oxymora
• Palindromes
• Personalities and Commentaries
• Play Languages
• Puns
• Quotations
• Riddles
• Self-Referential Sentences
• Video Games
• Web Filters
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• Wordies

Resources in This Category

• "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."

  http://www.yamara.com/axe/
  How to say this phrase in various languages.

• A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia

  http://jeff560.tripod.com/words.html
  Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.

• Bovilexics.com

  http://www.bovilexics.com/
  Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.

• Corsinet.com

  http://corsinet.com/
  Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.

• Dave's Fun Words

  http://uark.edu/~dbruce/list.html
  Categorized list of words which are fun to say.

• Dislexicon Word Generator

  http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon/dlc
  Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.

• Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties

  http://www.without-feathers.com/bits/fun-and-games/reads/tom-swifties.php
  Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.

• Faulkner or Machine Translation?

  http://reverent.org/sounds_like_faulkner.html
  A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.

• Fun With Words

  http://rinkworks.com/words
  Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.

• Fun-with-words.com

  http://www.fun-with-words.com/
  Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.

• Funnyname.com

  http://www.funnyname.com/
  A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.

• Gadzillion Things to Think About

  http://www.gadzillionthings.net/
  10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.

• LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions

  http://users.owt.com/lazrchet/humor/rhetoric.htm
  Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.

• Loquacious Lipograms

  http://phrontistery.info/lipogram.html
  Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.

• Lost in Translation

  http://www.tashian.com/multibabel/
  See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.

• Motamo

  http://www.soft-creation.fr/logic2uk.html
  Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.

• Opundo

  http://www.opundo.com/
  Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.

• Piece of Pi MadLibs

  http://madlibs.freeservers.com/
  Site featuring a collection of madlibs.

• Scorpio Tales

  http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/
  Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.

• Stink Pink

  http://highhopes.com/rhymetime.html
  Questions have answers with two rhyming words.

• Text Messages

  http://www.txt2nite.com/smiley.html
  A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.

• The Collective Noun Page

  http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/
  Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.

• The Mother of All Excuses Place

  http://madtbone.tripod.com/
  Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.

• The Word Spy

  http://www.wordspy.com/
  Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.

• Unscramble.net

  https://www.unscramble.net/
  Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.

• Word Skit

  http://www.wordskit.com/
  Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.

• Wordorium

  http://www.wordorium.blogspot.com/
  A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.

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