Wordplay
- Fun With Words (Site) - Heteronyms, contronyms, eponyms, word/letter frequencies and other trivia.
- Fun-with-words.com (Site) - Dedicated to oddities of the English language plus various types of wordplay.
- Untruisms and One-Trick Words (Site) - Phrases that are only used when they are untrue, and words that can only be used within a cliche'.
- Stink Pink (Site) - Questions have answers with two rhyming words.
- Stupid Questions (Site) - Asks for your opinion about and submission of rhetorical questions.
- Piece of Pi MadLibs (Site) - Site featuring a collection of madlibs.
- The Word Spy (Site) - Explains new words and phrases with new entries added regularly, plus archives of previous entries.
- The Collective Noun Page (Site) - Entertaining and annotated listing of collective nouns such as 'a murder of crows' and 'a pomposity of professors'.
- LazrChet's Rhetorical Questions (Site) - Questions designed to open one's mind, even if no answer is expected.
- Phobias (Site) - Article lists some of the more amusing phobias, like arachibutyrophobia-- fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
- Lost in Translation (Site) - See what happens when an English phrase is translated by computer back and forth between 5 different languages. Confusion results.
- Wordage: The Game of Words (Site) - Has three levels of difficulty to challenge the average player as well as any lurking wordsmiths.
- Opundo (Site) - Includes wordplay and oddities, mathematica, theologica, computica, scientifica, and other humour.
- SadMan Software: Wordplay (Site) - Software for the word-puzzle enthusiast.
- Dave's Fun Words (Site) - Categorized list of words which are fun to say.
- "Oh my God! There's an axe in my head." (Site) - How to say this phrase in various languages.
- Gadzillion Things to Think About (Site) - 10,000+ rhetorical questions. Accepts submissions.
- Humour Articles (Site) - Collection of various forms of wordplay: puns, deft definitions and anagrams.
- Answers to Rhetorical Questions (Site) - Covers a wide-ranging number of subjects.
- Language Fun (Site) - Shows how English can be distorted, corrupted or misinterpreted under numerous circumstances.
- Scorpio Tales (Site) - Collection of anagrams, pangrams, eponyms, heteronyms, contronyms, homophones and mangled English.
- Text Messages (Site) - A collection of symbolic "smiley" messages.
- The Tate Family Members (Site) - Plays on words using "Tate" as a last name.
- Word Games Software (Site) - Created specifically for Scrabble players, a downloadable English thesaurus and dictionary for Windows.
- Euler's Day Off (Site) - Rearrange a five-by-five grid of letters to form words in crossword fashion. There is a daily puzzle with no registration.
- Ms-Sam-Antics (Site) - Oxymora, famous last words and Confucius Says are just some of the wordplay included.
- Funnyname.com (Site) - A collection of amusing, interesting, strange, and occasionally rude names from the phone book.
- A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia (Site) - Includes book of word records, palindromic words, pangrams, most beautiful and ugly words, Scrabble words, and Bible word trivia.
- Loquacious Lipograms (Site) - Information and links on lipograms, works of fiction that omit a single letter.
- Bovilexics.com (Site) - Humorous new words and phrases created to define various important and unimportant concepts.
- Divinest-Sense.com: Tom Swifties (Site) - Definition of this style of play on words, a collection of original and previously-known examples, and links to other collections.
- Vocab Vitamins (Site) - A new word each day, plus the tools to enable you to use it.
- Unscramble.net (Site) - Unscramble, find, rhyme or define various words online.
- Word Soup Without Vowels (Site) - 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 Skit (Site) - Linguistic contortions, weird and wonderful words, plus quotations.
- Funny Names Site (Site) - Contains names like Justin Credible and Mandy Lifeboats.
- The Mother of All Excuses Place (Site) - Over 900 excuses to not go to work or school, police and accidents, breaking dates, doctor, missing church, diet, and taxes.
- Word Masher (Site) - 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-Jumble.com (Site) - Unscramble mixed-up letters dealing with sports, books, music and miscellaneous. Click on the scrambles to find their answers.
- Dislexicon Word Generator (Site) - Contains Dislexicon, which generates new made-up words and definitions for them.
- National Public Radio (Site) - New York Times and Weekend Edition puzzle editors present a weekly wordplay challenge.
- Wordorium (Site) - A repository of newfangled words with mangled or meandering meanings created by wordpeckers.
- Thinking on Words (Site) - A whimsical view on some words and expressions.
- Corsinet.com (Site) - Offers collections of word play, insults, riddles and jokes.
- Vocal Names Riddles (Site) - Guess a celebrity's name which is actually made of various words.
- Faulkner or Machine Translation? (Site) - A quiz to determine whether literary passages are the Faulkner originals or ones machine-translated from German into English.
- Before and After (Site) - The object is to fill in the blanks. Example: "____ day ____" becomes "Sun day light", that is, "Sunday" and "Daylight".
- You Grok (Site) - Use the clues to determine the subject of the puzzle. Inspired by Robert Heinlein’s “Stranger in a Strange Land.”
- Family Travel Games (Site) - A book of family-oriented wordplay to occupy time during road trips, from easy to challenging. No additional implements needed.
- Keepers of Lists (Site) - A large archive of amusing lists. Lists can be created, added to and voted on by the public.
- Sayings and Rhetoric (Site) - Mind-wanderings and rhetorical questions.
- Wit Words (Site) - A dictionary of fictitious words.
- The Fictionary (Site) - Contains new, made-up words which are combinations of other words. Accepts contributions.
- Sanskritpuns99 (Site) - A personal collection of essays and examples of the form, including parodies of famous works.
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