We have a variety of word games and other entertainments for you to enjoy while learning new words and their meanings. We are just beginning to build our wordplay menu, so keep an eye on it.
- NEW STUFF! Persiflage: Insults with Class
We weren't always awash in crudity even though insults have always been with us. Here is how we insulted each other when we were more civil. -
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NEW STUFF! Appropriate Company Names
Names of companies that are particularly appropriate for the business they conduct, such as The Reid and Wright Learning Centre, Bush and Hedges Landscaping, to mention but two.
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NEW STUFF! The Morty Skusting Writing Avoidance Center A classless room of automatic writing machines that generate memos, essays, country songs, band names, haiku poetry . . . even tombstones. No writing skills required. Why wake up your brain just to write a masterpiece?
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NEW STUFF! Glossary of Useless Latin Phrases
OK, here is what everyone has been asking for: a glossary of useless Latin phrases for home, school, work and your favorite garbage dump.
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Useless Measurement Conversion Table
alphaDictionary's Conversion Table converts nonstandard measurements not included in regular tables. Another good use of sniglets.
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New Meanings for Old Words
The latest kind of wordplay: attaching new meanings that almost make sense to old words. We plan to collect them all.
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Take our new Phobias Test
See how many phobias you can name then peruse our newly corrected phobia, philia, and mania glossaries.
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Glossary of IMglish
A list of acronyms, abbreviations, and emoticons used in chat and IM shorthand. Speed up you messaging immensely by memorizing this list.
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Language Jokes: Our Laughing Stock
Puns, palindromes, and every other type of wordplay: a one-stop trove of all the fun in language.
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Slinging Slang from the Flappers to the Rappers
Test you slang for the generation is represents. We will tell you if your slang comes from the 50s, the 2000s, or any generation in between.
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Are you a Rebel or a Yankee—or something in between?
Join over 2.5 million Americans who have taken this test and loved it. (Featured on PBS Morning Edition.)
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The alphaDictionary Game Room
Word games that will tickle and test your language skills.
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Word Fun for Kids in our Word Wizard Club
This area is designed for pupils and teachers of K-12, with emphasis on 3rd through 7th grades.
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Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary
Mark Twain's competitor defines words for their actual meanings in the real world. You know this is what they mean.
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Have a ball with our International Tongue Twisters
Tongue-twisters from around the world in the original language with translations into English.
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Write your Name in 11 Different Languages.
Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Tagalog, Eskimo—and more.
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Word Fun across the Web
Find out about the longest words, palindromes, antagonyms— the greatest sideshow of language on earth.
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NEW STUFF! Appropriate Company Names
