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.
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Paraprosdokians Enjoy this peculiar type of humor in our speech—sentences that lead us down the garden path.
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Persiflage: Intelligent Insults 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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Supercool 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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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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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 Conversions 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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Afraid to 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 - Texting Talk 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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Limericks (G-Rated) We offer these glisteningly clean limericks just to prove it can be done.
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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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International Tongue Twisters Have a ball with our tongue-twisters from around the world in the original language with translations into English.
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Write your Name in Many 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.
