Mini IV Word Lab: Pocket-Sized False Friends and Sound-Alikes
Word Search Librito Mini IV packs homophones, homographs, homonyms and false cognates into a 4 × 6 book. Play, flip, quiz and sample the words.
Exit looks like éxito, but éxito means success. A librería sells books, but it isn’t a library. And gracioso isn’t gracious: it’s funny.
Mini IV: Pocket Language Lab is the pocket version of Volume IV. Instead of themes like Kitchen or Ocean, every puzzle is a word game: false friends between English and Spanish, words that sound alike, and words that are spelled the same but mean different things.
What’s inside
- 69 puzzles, up to 6 pairs each.
- Seven kinds of puzzles: English and Spanish homophones, English and Spanish homographs, homonyms and English–Spanish false cognates.
- Backwards words and accents throughout.
- Made for advanced learners and wordplay fans.
Play a puzzle from the book
Puzzle 11: English–Spanish False Cognates. Find each pair, and notice which ones are traps.
Puzzle 11 · English-Spanish False Cognates
Drag from the first letter to the last, or tap the first letter and then the last. Find the English and the Spanish words.
- Embarrassed Avergonzado
- Funny Gracioso
- Gracious Cortés
- Large Grande
- Long Largo
- Pregnant Embarazada
Keyboard: arrow keys to move, Enter on the first and last letter.
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Flip cards: false friends
Don't trust your eyes
Say the answer out loud, then tap the card to check.
Quick quiz
Mini IV quiz
Try it on the go
- Trap or twin? One person reads an English word; the other says whether its look-alike Spanish word is a friend or a trap.
- Sound-alike sentences. Make one sentence with both homophones: I ate eight tacos.
- Collect your favorites. Keep a list of the false friends that surprise you most.
Mini IV - Pocket Language Lab
Best for: Advanced adult learners, wordplay fans, travel
Includes a Word List / Lista de palabras: every word in the book with its translation, listed alphabetically in English and again in Spanish, so you can look up a word from either language.
Vocabulary & topics: Wordplay examples include alcohol (Ale, Wine, Bar), body references (Pee, Constipated) and words with more than one meaning (Stake = to bet, Wound, Mourning).
- Solving
- Moderate
- Vocabulary
- Expert
- Puzzles
- 69
- Size
- 4 × 6 in
Compare all four pocket books in Mini I vs. II vs. III vs. IV.
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