"Oh my God! There's an axe in my head."
How to say this phrase in various languages. |
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. |
A Flock of Segers
Wordplay combining titles and names of bands and movies. |
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". |
Beggar's Opera and its Sanskrit Wordplay
Offers linguistical evidence that John Gay's classic contains wordplay based on the ancient Hindu language. |
Bovilexics.com
Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts. |
Condit's Linguistical Predicament
Shows how the Latin word, "condit", typifies the political woes of Gary Condit in the Chandra Levy matter. |
Corsinet.com
Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes. |
Dave's Fun Words
Categorized list of words which are fun to say. |
Dictionary Of Wordplay
A collection of puns, tomswiftys, jokes, tongue-twisters, double entendres, homonyms, and homophones. |
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. |
Fun-with-words.com
Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
SadMan Software: Wordplay
Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast. |
Sayings and Rhetoric
Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions. |
Science Wordplay
Deals with conversion of measuring units from a scientific angle. |
Scorpio Tales
Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English. |
Similes Galore
A book of the author's own personally-created similes, catch phrases, and one-liners. |
Sources of the Word Yahoo
Claims that Jonathan Swift used various words that look or sound like "Yahoo", including Chinese, Greek, and Russian. |
Stink Pink
Questions have answers with two rhyming words. |
Stupid Questions
Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions. |
Text Messages
A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages. |
The Collective Noun Page
Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'. |
The Fictionary
Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions. |
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. |
The Tate Family Members
Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name. |
The Word Spy
Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries. |
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. |
Wireless Power Word Game
Challenging word jumbles posted every week. |
Wit Words
A dictionary of ficticious 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. |
Word-Jumble.com
Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers. |
Wordage: The Game of Words
Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths. |
Wordorium
A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers. |
You Grok
Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.” |
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