Wordplay Humor

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

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• Opundo - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
  
• Vocab Vitamins - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
  
• 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.
  
• Wordage: The Game of Words - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
  
• Dave's Fun Words - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
  
• 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.
  
• Sayings and Rhetoric - Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
  
• Unscramble.net - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
  
• "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." - How to say this phrase in various languages.
  
• Faulkner or Machine Translation? - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
  
• Word Games Software - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
  
• Fun With Words - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
  
• Piece of Pi MadLibs - Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
  
• 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.
  
• Stink Pink - Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
  
• Wordorium - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
  
• The Word Spy - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
  
• Bovilexics.com - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
  
• Family Travel Games - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
  
• Vocal Names Riddles - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
  
• Word Skit - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
  
• Word-Jumble.com - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
  
• Stupid Questions - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
  
• Lost in Translation - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
  
• Keepers of Lists - A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
  
• Funnyname.com - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
  
• Loquacious Lipograms - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
  
• Text Messages - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
  
• Scorpio Tales - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
  
• Untruisms and One-Trick Words - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
  
• Dislexicon Word Generator - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
  
• The Collective Noun Page - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
  
• Gadzillion Things to Think About - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
  
• Humour Articles - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
  
• Before and After - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
  
• 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.
  
• Answers to Rhetorical Questions - Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
  
• Fun-with-words.com - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
  
• Corsinet.com - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
  
• 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 Tate Family Members - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
  
• Funny Names Site - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
  
• Sanskritpuns99 - A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
  
• LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
  
  

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