Resources on playing with words

Websites, books and tools

Learn more techniques for playing with your words.

Anagrams

Andy’s anagram solver

Type in your key word or phrase, and this tool will create anagrams from them. Whether you’ll like the anagrams, I can’t say. “Ann Wylie” generated “el yawn in” — not a phrase I’ll be using in my next training brochure!

Internet Anagram Server

Turn a list into a mnemonic device to help readers remember your key points. Create a meaningful acronym from the first letters of the words in your list with this online anagram server.

Oxymorons

Myspace Funny Oxymoron Generator

Get inspiration with this push-button generator. See contradictions in terms like “working vacation,” “political science” and “airline food.”

Serendipitous Oxymoron Maker

Practice creating your own paradoxes. Choose from a small list of positive adjectives with negative nouns (“beautiful disaster”) and negative adjectives with positive nouns (“miserable honesty”).

Word coiners

Verbotomy

Practice coining new words.