WORD GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does word game mean? 

• WORD GAME (noun)
  The noun WORD GAME has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WORD GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORD GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("word game" is a kind of...):

parlor game; parlour game (a game suitable for playing in a parlor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "word game"):

anagrams (a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters)

Scrabble (a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game)