A word game is in general any play of language which handles the words or of sonorities, and in particular that which consists in creating two homophonous words or sentences (generally humorous) having a different direction.

If the word game results from an unfortunate chance, one will speak about Kakemphaton.

Various types of word games

• Acrostic: poem in which the initial ones of each worms compose a word
• Allographe: continuation of letters which has directions only if those are marked one after the other (L.H.O.O.Q), (F.L.M.N.H.)
• Anacyclique: word which can be read from right to left (with a different direction). Christmas/Leon, traced/variation, name/my, meal/to sap . On the other hand, Laval is a Palindrome.
• Anagram: permutations of letters which form a new mot. Boris Vian → delighted Bison
• Antonomase: proper name used as common noun. Watt, Amp, gift Juan, Sanctimonious hypocrite, Pénélope, Vandal, Shrew…
• Autotraduction : name which broken up into two terms gives the translation of the first in another language. Eggplant → Inn (Fr) Inn (in) , Waterloo → toilets (nl) water (Fr)
• Cacography: Faulty orthography/bad style.
• exquisite Corpse: play aiming at adding words to the fur to measurement, without seeing those already written, until forming a surrealist sentence.
• Pun: word game based on Homonymy (words which decides in the same way) or the Polysémie (word having several directions). Ask our exquisite words!
• Charade
• Cratylisme : belief in a natural and fixed symbolism of the sounds (name resulting from a dialog of Plato, the Cratyle)
• Spoonerism: art of décaller let us sons them (→ art of dessaller let us cons them). Glisser in the piscine → Pisser in the glycine . the contrepèteries → Lettres that on kneads
• DuoMots: Formed words of two of the same words direction, like “PEGASE” (fart gas), “soldier” (hole fion), “Bourvil” (borough city).
• False proverb
• Homéotéleute: distribution of same a " son" at the end of a sentence or members of a sentence. Examples: " miraculeuse" /" merveilleuse" ; " étonnante" /" surprenante"
• Homophony, word words or group giving the same sound, like father and even .
• Lipogramme : text which does not use certain letters. Disappearance: amusing novel, which one will read by pure pleasure or taste of the witty remark (not of E).
• Portemanteau word: imaginary word formed starting from two words: Goldorak + Chirac → Goldochirac
• Neologism: personalization of an expression: " myspacien"
• Oxymore : contradictory oxymoron. soft violence
• Palindrome: word or sentence which can be also read of right on the left. Elected by this villain!
• Pangramme : phrases comprising all the letters of the alphabet. Carry this old whiskey to the fair judge who smokes.
• Paronomasia: association of 2 expressions by sound resemblance. the keys help there you (tepid showers) (Boby Lapointe)
• Poème holorime, particular case of homophony: towards which decides similar: By the wood of the Djinn, where fear piles up, speaks! Wood of the gin! … or hundred cold milk cups. (Alphonse Allais)
• Polysémie
• Retro-acronymie: postal and telecommunications authorities: Small Quiet Work
• Shiritori: Japanese play. Only → to lie → irresponsible →…
• Horn-ears: sentences difficult to include/understand
• Virelangue: sentence difficult to pronounce. are the socks of the archduchess dry? Bone-dry.
• Zeugma : to attach two elements, which cannot be put on the same plan. Every morning, it jumps its breakfast and the caretaker (Pierre Desproges)

See too

Related articles

• Language
• French language
• Onomatopoeia
• Oulipo
• Towards broken
• Janotisme: awkward construction and ambiguity of a sentence: I bought a leg in the butcher who was large : it is not known then if it is the butcher or the leg who was large.

External bonds

• Presentation of the book " 500 plays with the mots" (ISBN 2035603595) by Pierre-Nicolas Lapointe