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A Celebration of the English Language- We use it every day, but we never learn all there is to know about it, nor do we ever finish mining all the pleasure that can be had with it. The English language is fraught with fun. What's the longest English word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order? What words are their own antonyms? What word means "to cause a frog or toad to fly up in the air"? These questions and many more are answered in Fun With Words.

Automatically generate humorous complaint letters. Just tell it whom to complain about, and the automatic complaint-letter generator will do the rest. A different letter every time!

Words that don't appear in the dictionary, but should.

Generate meaningless post-modernist essays here. An interesting site.

A collection of thousands of random informational and trivia articles on a variety of subjects including word trivia.

Verbotomy is about creating words. Every day we create a new definition and matching cartoon. Your challenge is to create a word -- a verboticism -- that matches the definition. After you create your verboticism, you can vote for other authors's words to help select the winning verboticism for the definition.

Simple yet challenging word puzzle game. 3 Levels to choose from. Try to guess the computer's words over three rounds each time.

Enjoy a new word game, word search, brainteaser, trivia game, anagram, cryptogram, crossword and more each weekday! Challenge your general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, memory, concentration, critical thinking and problem solving.

A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia

Printable word search puzzles with fun trivia facts

The Journal of Recreational Linguistics: For more than thirty years, Word Ways has explored the many facets of logology.

WordCount™ is an artistic experiment in the way we use language. It presents the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness. Each word is scaled to reflect its frequency relative to the words that precede and follow it, giving a visual barometer of relevance. The larger the word, the more we use it. The smaller the word, the more uncommon it is.

Free on-line interactive word games, boggle, anagrams, puzzles, crosswords, cryptograms, cryptoquotes, jumble. Play and solve word games.

At 17,259 words, this is the world's longest palindromic sentence.

Learn a obscure, abstruse and/or recondite word, a day and become a sesquipedalian.

The place for anyone age 10 and up to test their brain and skills with word and math puzzles, mazes, brain teasers and more. We have more than 1100 free printable puzzles for you to test your brains on.