Wordplay resources 2

[ESquared]

• Wordsmith.Org:
- A.Word.A.Day
- Internet Anagram Server

• HyperDictionary.com

• YourDictionary.com

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• Dictionary.com

• The DICT Development Group

• The Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required)

• Bartleby.com Great Books Online
- Dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations, usage, style, famous authors, and more.

• AcronymFinder.com

• Moby Lexicon Project
- All downloadable: dictionaries in five languages, hyphenation dictionary, parts of speech, words and phrases, works of Shakespeare

• The Dictionary of Difficult Words



Submit your favorites and they'll be added to the list!

 

[ESquared]

Some new things up there. Check out bartleby.com!

 

[SF0751]

http://www.acronymfinder.com

- The web's most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms.


Susan
[green]Gramen artificiosum odi. [/green]

 

[TheRambler]

What about The Wordplay Web Site?

Fun-with-words.com is dedicated to amusing quirks, peculiarities, and oddities of the English language: wordplay. Playing with words and language is both entertaining and educational. Here you can have plenty of fun with words with over 500 pages of word puzzles, games, amazing lists, and fun facts.

Looks fun and interesting, but I did not check it extensively...

 

[TheRambler]

Here is another one: RinkWorks

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.

 

[ESquared]

Check out HyperDictionary.Com! It has words that other dictionaries often do not, including some words which merriam-webster says are part of the for-pay unabridged section only.

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A sacrifice is harder when no one knows you've made it.

 

[TheRambler]

The Moby Lexicon Project
The project is available either as a complete distribution [26MB] or as set of subprojects:

Moby Hyphenator contains 185,000 entries fully hyphenated. The hyphenation marks are indicated with ASCII 165 character, which is significant in alphabetization.

Moby Language word lists in five of the world's great languages.
French number of words 138257
German number of words 159809
Italian number of words 60453
Japanese number of words 115523
Spanish number of words 86059
TOTAL number of words 560101

Moby Part-of-Speech
230,000 entries fully described by part(s) of speech, listed in priority order
This is unquestionably the largest P-O-S list in the world.
Each part-of-speech vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field followed by a field delimiter of (ASCII 215) and the part-of-speech field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant):
[tt] Noun N
Plural p
Noun Phrase h
Verb (usu participle) V
Verb (transitive) t
Verb (intransitive) i
Adjective A
Adverb v
Conjunction C
Preposition P
Interjection !
Pronoun r
Definite Article D
Indefinite Article I
Nominative o[/tt]

Moby Pronunciator consists of 175,000 entries fully International Phonetic Alphabet coded Each pronunciation vocabulary entry consists of a word or phrase field followed by a field delimiter of space " " and the IPA-equivalent field that is coded using the following ASCII symbols (case is significant). Spaces between words in the word or phrase or pronunciation field is denoted with underbar "_".

Moby Shakespeare
The complete unabridged works of Shakespeare

Moby Thesaurus is the largest and most comprehensive thesaurus data source in English available for commercial use. This second edition has been thoroughly revised adding more than 5,000 root words (to total more than 30,000) with an additional million synonyms and related terms (to total more than 2.5 million synonyms and related terms). Although this thesaurus is provided in a very simple ASCII format suitable to viewing, editing, and automatic parsing, most users will consider reformatting schemes to represent the data in a more economical form, such as table of related terms whose index can be shared by many roots.

Moby Words
610,000+ words and phrases. The largest word list in the world.
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And it is free! to "Use, sell, rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform". So far I have only created a table with 354,984 words so that I can improve my SQL skills (and maybe beat ESquared someday...)

 

[ESquared]

My dictionary only has 171,206 words, and many of those are useless for wordplay.

Great resource! Thanks for posting, TheRambler.

 

[vidru]

Mine only had 97,181.

Muchas Gracias, TheRambler! DTS-ing them into my db as we speak!

-dave

 

[TheRambler]

Thanks for the stars. I've been playing a little with palindromes and reversibles, and the longest I got was "kinnikinnik", but I couldn't find it in our wordplay dictionaries, they list "kinnikinnick" instead.

Also, I couldn't find these words: redrawer, reknits, repaper, remital, addda, derats, gawgaw, hagigah, halalah, murdrum, ottetto, peeweep, sooloos, tebbet, tibbit, utinam, wagwag, etc. Do you know what they mean? are these English words? If not, then use carefuly.

 

[ESquared]

The Dictionary of Difficult Words

 

[tsdragon]

While you're at the Merriam-Webster web site, they used to (and probably still do) have a "Word of the Day" mailing list you can sign up for. It's very interesting.

Just as a bit of history, 6 or 8 years ago I suggested to them that they take their online Word-of-the-Day feature and make it a mailing list thing. They thanked me for the idea and said they would consider it. About 6 months after that I got an email asking me if I wanted to be a tester for their Word-of-the-Day mailing. How often do you find a company that responsive to new ideas? (Their responsiveness worked, too. When I wanted to buy my daughter a dictionary for Christmas, guess where I went?)


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[ESquared]

I have been subscribed to wordsmith.org's AWAD (A Word A Day) mailing list for years... before Merriam Webster did their own.

 

[TheRambler]

I found another one, Everest Dictionary:

Everest Dictionary is the greatest of the free dictionaries available to the public. There are 35 dictionaries available to date. Its creator assured us that he will keep adding other dictionaries. The capabilities of this dictionary:
- Covers all main european languages
- It is possible to search words across many dictionaries
- The search of the words can be customised
- It monitors the clipboard; in any program, a simple copy of the word to the clipboard using "Copy" command will have as effect the automatic search of the word in the dictionary.
- It includes a little window (in order to learn new words), where it shows a word at random from the loaded dictionary
- Everest Instant: translate words using clicking on words in the open documents
- Everest Game: a good tool for testing your knowledge of the language
- Everest Translator: translate texts in several languages

Have fun!