alphaDictionary Word Games
We give you the most often misspelled words in English and two games for testing your knowledge of them. Now we have coded messages from great minds of the past. We provide you with our Enigma Machine to help you break the code. See how well you do!
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Idiom & Adage Recognition Can you recognize the idiom "climbing the walls" from its literal interpretation in the picture on the left? You will love this game. See how many common expressions (idioms) you can recognize from the pictures of their literal meanings.>
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How much of a Rebel or a Yankee are you? Find out in percentages. Join over 5 million Americans who have taken this test and loved it. (Featured on PBS Morning Edition.)
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Slinging Slang from the Flappers to the Rappers. Test your slang for the generation it comes from. We will tell you if your slang comes from the 50s, the 2000s, or any generation in between.
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False Friend Riddles. Riddles made up of English sentences that contain a foreign word spelled identical to an English word. Define the foreign word to build your vocabulary and learn the major false friends (false cognates) of the language:
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Animal Crackers! Animal names cracked up into unrelated words. See if you can reassemble the letters into animal names. We think they will crack you up, too.
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Miss Spelling's Spellbinder of a Spelling Game Practice spelling the 100 most often misspelled words in English.