word game
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3.0
- noun
- /wɜrd ɡeɪm/
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juego de palabras
- At the family gathering, we decided to have a friendly word game to test our vocabulary skills.
- play word games
Examples
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You cannot use slang in word games.
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I just love word games, right?
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Play a fun word game with me.
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I'm really bad at word games.
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I see you're playing word games.
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Oliver tried to break the gloom by suggesting we play a word game.
Fiction book (1993) -
You play word games?
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It's a word game that's sweeping the nation, nay, the world.
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I enjoy playing a word game with my friends on weekends.
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The new word game app on my phone is both fun and educational.
Synonyms
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1.0
An activity with rules that people play for fun or competition
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3.7
A board game where players make words with letter tiles to score points
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2.9
A game where players guess letters to find a hidden word
A word game where players make words from mixed letters
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Morphology
The meaning 'a game involving words' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'word' (a meaningful unit of language) with 'game' (a recreational contest), following a regular noun–noun compound pattern. This compositional structure is cross-linguistically common and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Word game comes from the simple idea of playing with word pieces like toys, so picture people moving letter tiles to build words or racing to find hidden words on a page. So it means 'a game where players form, change, or find words'.