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Word Game

Definition: Word Game

Word Game

Noun

1. Any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Word Game

English words defined with "word game": charade, Clumps, CramboLogomachyVerbarium. (references)
Specialty definitions using "word game": BRYANHeads or Tailsplugh. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Word game

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Word games can be of several different types:

Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters:

Paper and pencil games/puzzles:

Structured games, focussing on the semantics of words:

Linguistic recreations based around words and letters

External Links

See word play for literary works in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Word game."

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Commercial Usage: Word Game

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Huge Hog Is a Big Pig: A Rhyming Word Game (reference)

  • Mad Libs in Love: World's Greatest Word Game (Mad Libs) (reference)

  • Prime Time Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Word Game

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

word game

3,449

word game puzzle

1,822

free word game

458

online word game

217

free online word game

111

mojo word game

38

hoyle word game

31

jumble word game

19

child word game

15

fun word game

8

scrabble word game

8

computer word game

6

boggle word game

6

scrambled word game

6

hangman word game

6

baby shower word game

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Word Game

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-m-o-r-w"

-1 letter: dowager, wordage.

-2 letters: deworm, dogear, meadow, radome, redowa, roamed, warmed, womera, wormed.

-3 letters: adore, armed, derma, dewar, dogma, dower, dream, gamed, gamer, gored, grade, madre, marge, mawed, morae, mowed, mower, oared, omega, oread, raged, regma, rowed, wader, waged, wager, wared, wodge.

-4 letters: aero, aged, ager, awed, dago, dame, dare, dear, demo, derm, doer, doge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

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Alternative Orthography: Word Game


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 6F 72 64      47 61 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01110010 01100100 00100000 01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#114 &#100 &#32 &#71 &#97 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 0072 0064      0047 0061 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57818470241677971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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