title: List of forms of word play
text: # List of forms of word play
  
  This is a list of techniques used in word play.
  
  Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words
  
  * Engrish
  * Chinglish
  * Homonym: words with same sounds and same spellings but with different meanings
  * Homograph: words with same spellings but with different meanings
  * Homophone: words with same sounds but with different meanings
  * Homophonic translation
  * Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. The term is often used to refer specifically to mishearings of song lyrics (cf. soramimi).
  * Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing
  * Phonetic reversal
  * Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words
     * Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words
     * Assonance: matching vowel sounds
     * Consonance: matching consonant sounds
     * Holorime: a rhyme that encompasses an entire line or phrase
  * Spoonerism: a switch of two sounds in two different words (cf. sananmuunnos)
  * Same-sounding words or phrases, fully or approximately homophonous (sometimes also referred to as "oronyms")
  
  Techniques that involve the letters
  
  * Acronym: abbreviations formed by combining the initial components in a phrase or names
  * Apronym: an acronym that is also a phrase pertaining to the original meaning
     * RAS syndrome: repetition of a word by using it both as a word alone and as a part of the acronym
     * Recursive acronym: an acronym that has the acronym itself as one of its components
  * Acrostic: a writing in which the first letter, syllable, or word of each line can be put together to spell out another message
     * Mesostic: a writing in which a vertical phrase intersects lines of horizontal text
     * Word square: a series of letters arranged in the form of a square that can be read both vertically and horizontally
  * Backronym: a phrase back-formed by treating a word that is originally not an initialism or acronym as one
     * Replacement Backronym: a phrase back-formed from an existing initialism or acronym that is originally an abbreviation with another meaning
  * Anagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase
     * Ambigram: a word which can be read just as well mirrored or upside down
     * Blanagram: rearranging the letters of a word or phrase and substituting one single letter to produce a new word or phrase
     * Letter bank: using the letters from a certain word or phrase as many times as wanted to produce a new word or phrase
     * Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram
  * Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date
  * Gramogram: a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word
  * Lipogram: a writing in which certain letter is missing
     * Univocalic: a type of poetry that uses only one vowel
  * Palindrome: a word or phrase that reads the same in either direction
  * Pangram: a sentence which uses every letter of the alphabet at least once
  * Tautogram: a phrase or sentence in which every word starts with the same letter
  * Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet
  
  Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words
  
  * Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin
  * Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings
  * Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own characters
  * Irony
  * Malapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaning
  * Neologism: creating new words
     * Phono-semantic matching: camouflaged/pun borrowing in which a foreign word is matched with a phonetically and semantically similar pre-existent native word (related to folk etymology)
     * Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes
     * Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else
  * Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms
  * Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously
  * Pun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding words
  * Slang: the use of informal words or expressions
  
  Techniques that involve the manipulation of the entire sentence or passage
  
  * Dog Latin
  * Language game: a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to the untrained ear
     * Pig Latin
     * Ubbi dubbi
  * Non sequiturs: a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement
  
  Techniques that involve the formation of a name
  
  * Ananym: a name with reversed letters of an existing name
  * Aptronym: a name that aptly represents a person or character
  * Charactonym: a name which suggests the personality traits of a fictional character
  * Eponym: applying a person's name to a place
  * Pseudonym: an artificial fictitious name, used as an alternative to one's legal name
  * Sobriquet: a popularized nickname
  
  Techniques that involves figure of speech
  
  * Conversion (word formation): a transformation of a word of one word class into another word class
  * Dysphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a harsher tone over one with a more polite tone
  * Euphemism: intentionally using a word or phrase with a more polite tone over one with a harsher tone
  * Kenning: circumlocution used in Old Norse and Icelandic poetry
  * Paraprosdokian: a sentence whose latter part is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe the first
  
  Others
  
  * Aleatory
  * Bushism
  * Constrained writing
  * Rebus
  * Interlanguages, Mixed languages and Macaronic languages
  * Sarcasm
  * Tmesis
  