the latest news

04-05-07 [ garret ]
woo
fixed the search by author, randomize, and made the join mailinglist not dependent on the popup box being displayed. An error in subscribing now appears on front page. thanks for the patience, word-ka-teers.

04-05-07 [ hd ]
What's going on?
New owners playing with their new toy, that's what. Paul and Garret sold their interests in the pd to Marty D'Mello and HD Fowler. Kicky-wicksy, for a lot of word-related websites.

11-03-06 [ garret ]
fixed
It's about time for the bi-annual apology from your favorite pseudodictionary programmer. Our web host delivered some pretty substantial server upgrades, and our humble site bit the dust in the ensuing kerfuffle. It's all fixed up now.

10-31-05 [ Betsy ]
Are we pseudofamous or what?
Looks as if some 7th grade English class had as a project today submitting words to the PseudoDictionary. In response to such a high honor, all 100 words added to the input queue today will be accepted &mdash just as they were input. That’s not to say they will remain in the pd as entered, but they will be visible at least for a while &mdash for grading. Good luck, kids. Some of you are going to need it.

10-25-05 [ Betsy ]
Made-up words from The Simpsons at Wikipedia.
Several have expansive entries in the Wiktionary: Craptacular.

(Sorry, but some of the earlier news revealed how to make nuclear weapons and we had to block access to it.)

welcome to the pseudodictionary, where words you’ve made up can become part of an online dictionary: slang, webspeak, colloquialisms. you name it, even a few real words, if they sufficiently pique the interest of one of the site principals: garret, hd, marty, paul.

if you know a word that should be in a dictionary but isn’t, submit it and we’ll add it (with credit given to you for your entry, of course).

you can submit as many words as you like. just keep in mind that only words that meet our our guidelines will be added. words you submit shouldn’t be drug-related or overly sexual, shouldn’t describe genitals or bodily functions, and shouldn’t be racist or otherwise hateful. we want to keep the site lighthearted and fun for everyone, so words such as those won’t be added.

nota bene: (that’s latin for note well.)
a word’s appearance in the pseudodictionary does not make it a real word, merely a pseudo-word. we take no responsibility for your use of words from the pseudodictionary. use them at your peril. if you claim ownership of a word defined in the lexicon and want us to remove it, let hd know. we’ve let so many crappy submittals slip through, he may remove it even if he doesn’t believe you.

featured site: freerice.com
build your vocabulary and fight world hunger at the same time. for each word you get right, freerice.com will donate 20 grains of rice to the un world food program to help end hunger. freerice has donated ~180,000 pounds of rice since october 7, 2007. the washington post thinks it’s a good cause, and so do we.

sites for words & such
brian’s errors, cmos, double-tongued dictionary, fetchbook, fight the bull, gender genie, grandiloquent dictionary, homophones, how to make up words, languagehat, language log, lawler, quinion, squackle, word detective, word spy, wordorigins,

sites to enjoy or use
mediatemple (our fine host), dead or alive, google fight, movies, notlong urls, on this day, oracle of bacon, phobias, snopes, the straight dope, tiny urls, web tutorials

ask earl. earl? why not erle, the same as mine? wanna earn some big bucks? you might be able to if you name your first-born after me.

questions, comments, problems or inquiries about this website? ask! hd’ll sort ya out.

submit your words
don’t make us beg. this is why we run the site. for free, no less. if you don’t submit new words, we won’t have any fun.

message board
visit the message board. ask or answer a question. speak your mind or spew your venom.

randomerizor
here’s a fun little toy that generates random words from our dictionary. it can be loads of fun, but there’s no money back guarantee.