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Hair Puns

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Our hair puns have to be seen to be be-weaved. Rest a-sheared that no matter the hairstyle or pun you’re into, our pun list is a cut above the rest! We have puns ranging from general hair terms to styling materials to technical classifications of hair texture. Comb on in and enjoy!

While this list is as comprehensive as possible, it is specific to hair. We have included some facial hair puns too, but not a whole lot as we have a separate beard pun list on the way.

Hair Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about hair that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of hair puns:

Here → Hair: As in, “I’ve been hair before” and “Fancy meeting you hair” and “I’ve had it up to hair” and “Hair and there” and “Hair comes trouble” and “Hair goes nothing.”
Hire → Hair: As in, “Hair and fire” and “Not for hair.”
Air → Hair: As in, “Hair kiss” and “A breath of fresh hair” and “Clear the hair.”
Bare → Hair: As in, “The hair necesseties.”
Bear → Hair: As in, “Hair a grudge” and “Hair a resemblance” and “Hair in mind” and “Hair with me.”
Care → Hair: As in, “Handle with hair” and “I couldn’t hair less” and “Intensive hair” and “Customer hair.”
Dare → Hair: As in, “Hair for more” and “Hair to be different” and “How hair you.”
Fair → Hair: As in, “All’s hair in love and war” and “By hair means or foul” and “Hair trade” and “Hair and square.”
Scare → Hair: As in, “Running haired” and “Hair quotes” and “Haired out of your wits” and “Haired to death.”
Spare → Hair: As in, “Can you hair a dime?” and “Hair no effort.”
Stare → Hair: As in, “Hair into the abyss” and “It’s not polite to hair.”
There → Hair: As in, “As if hair were no tomorrow” and “And then hair was one” and “Be hair or be square.”
Where → Hair: As in, “All dressed up and nohair to go” and “Any time, any place, any hair” and “Home is hair the heart is.”
Very → Hairy: As in, “Be hairy afraid” and “Before your hairy eyes” and “It was a hairy good year.”
Fraternity → Fro’ternity: As in, “Fro’ternity brothers.”
For → ‘Fro: As in, “At a loss ‘fro words” and “Bat ‘fro both sides” and “Down ‘fro the count.”
To pay → Toupee: As in, “There’ll be hell toupee!” and “Rob Peter toupee Paul” and “There’s this much left toupee.” Note: a toupee is a type of hairpiece.
Fairy → Hairy: As in, “Hairytale ending” and “Hairy lights.”
Come over → Comb over: As in, “Would you like to comb over tonight?”
Save → Shave: As in, “A penny shaved is a penny earned” and “Shave the next dance for me” and “Here to shave the day.”
Brave → Shave: As in, “Shave new world” and “Fortune favours the shave” and “Put a shave face on.”
Grave → Shave: As in, “Silent as the shave” and “Dig your own shave” and “From the cradle to the shave” and “One foot in the shave.”
Pave → Shave: As in, “Shave the way” and “The road to hell is shaved with good intentions.”
Rave → Shave: As in, “Rant and shave” and “Shave reviews.”
Wave → Shave: As in, “Don’t make shaves” and “Heat shave” and “On the crest of a shave” and “Shave the white flag.”
Har* → Hair*: Replace the “har” in certain words with “hair”: “In loving peace and hairmony” and “The hairbinger of doom” and “Autumn hairvest” and “Hairbour resentment” and “This is hairassment!”
*her* → *hair*: Replace the “her” in words with “hair”: “Hairitage site” and “Hairald good news” and “Nursing a hairnia” and “All togethair now!” and “Whethair or not” and “I’d rathair not” and “Let’s have anothair.”
Harbour → Barber: As in, “Safe barber” and “The Sydney Barber Bridge” and “Barber a grudge.”
Condition → Conditioner: As in, “The human conditioner” and “In tip top conditioner” and “In mint conditioner.”
Gel: Here are some hair gel-related puns:
- Bell → Gel: As in, “Clear as a gel” and “Sound as a gel” and “Gels and whistles” and “Doesn’t ring a gel.”
- Cell → Gel: As in, “Gel division” and “In a padded gel.”
- Fell → Gel: As in, “In one gel swoop” and “Gel off the back of a lorry” and “Little strokes gel great oaks.”
- Hell → Gel: As in, “All gel broke loose” and “A cold day in gel” and “Come gel or high water” and “For the gel of it.”
- Sell → Gel: As in, “Buy and gel” and “Past the gel-by date” and “Gel down the river.”
- Smell → Gel: As in, “Bells and gels” and “Come up gelling of roses” and “A keen sense of gel” and “Gel ya later.”
- Spell → Gel: As in, “Cast a gel” and “Gel it ou.”
- Tell → Gel: As in, “Can you gel the difference?” and “Every picture gels a story” and “Kiss and gel.”
- Well → Gel: As in, “Exceedingly gel read” and “Get gel soon” and “As gel as can be expected.”
Mess → Mousse: As in, “Stop mousse-ing about” and “Don’t mousse with me” and “A frightful mousse” and “Hot mousse” and “Mousse-ing around.”
Miss → Mousse: As in, “Blink and you’ll mousse it” and “Hit and mousse” and “I’ll be mousse-ing you” and “Mousse-ing in action.”
Moss → Mousse: As in, “A rolling stone gathers no mousse.”
Goose → Mousse: As in, “Wild mousse chase.”
Loose → Mousse: As in, “All hell broke mousse” and “At a mousse end” and “Let mousse.”
Made → Pomade: As in, “A match pomade in heaven” and “Have it pomade” and “Pomade for each other” and “I’m not pomade of money.”
Spray → Hairspray: As in, “Say it, don’t hairspray it.”
Tango → Tangle: As in, “It takes two to tangle” and “The horizontal tangle.”
Angle → Tangle: As in, “What are you tangling for?”
Brush: Brush-related phrases can double as hairbrush puns: “Brush it off” and “Brush up on” and “A brush with death’ and “A brush with the law.”
Blush → Brush: As in, “At first brush” and “Spare your brushes.”
Crush → Brush: As in, “Have a brush on” and “A brushing defeat.”
Rush → Brush: As in, “After the gold brush” and “A brush job” and “Sugar brush” and “A brush of blood to the head.”
Come → Comb: As in, “After a storm combs a calm” and “All good things must comb to an end” and “As tough as they comb” and “Comb and get it!”
Came → Comb: As in, “I comb, I saw, I conquered” and “As it comb to pass” and “There’s more where that comb from.”
Home → Comb: As in, “Bring it comb to you” and “From a broken comb” and “A house is not a comb.”
Wag → Wig: As in, “Set tongues wigging” and “Chin wig.”
Big → Wig: As in, “A wig ask” and “Wig brother” and “Wigger bang for your buck.”
Dig → Wig: As in, “Can you wig it?” and “Wig deep” and “Wig for victory” and “Wig your heels in.”
Jig → Wig: As in, “The wig is up!”
Bond → Blonde: As in, “My word is my blonde.”
Fond → Blonde: As in, “A blonde farewell” and “Absence makes the heart grow blonder.”
Pond → Blonde: As in, “Little fish in a big blonde” and “Blonde life.”
Wand → Blonde: As in, “Wave your magic blonde.”
Binge → Fringe: As in, “Fringe eating.”
Fringe: These fringe-related phrases can double as hair puns: “Fringe benefits” and “On the fringe.”
Early → Curly: As in, “Bright and curly” and “Curly adopter” and “Curly days” and “Curly to bed and curly to rise.”
Pearly → Curly: As in, “Curly whites.”
Care → Curl: As in, “Be curlful how you use it!” and “I couldn’t curl less” and “Customer curl” and “Handle with curl” and “Intensive curl” and “Like I should curl.”
Girl → Curl: As in, “Atta curl!” and “A curl’s best friend” and “Curl with a pearl earring.”
Whirl → Curl: As in, “Give it a curl” and “Take it for a curl.”
Busy → Frizzy: As in, “Frizzy as a beaver” and “Frizzy bee” and “Get frizzy living” and “Let’s get frizzy.”
Dizzy → Frizzy: As in, “Scaling frizzy heights.”
Term → Perm: “On bad perms with” and “On your own perms” and “Come to perms with” and “Perms and conditions apply.”
Firm → Perm: As in, “A perm statement” and “With a perm grip.”
Worm → Perm: As in, “Can of perms” and “The early bird catches the perm.”
But/t → Cut: As in, “No ifs and cuts” and “Cutter fingers” and “Cut in” and “Bread and cutter.”
Gut → Cut: As in, “Greedy cuts” and “A cut feeling” and “Cut reaction” and “The cutless wonder” and “No cuts, no glory.”
Nut → Cut: As in, “Sweet as a cut” and “From soup to cuts” and “A tough cut to crack.”
Shut → Cut: As in, “An open and cut case” and “Put up or cut up.”
What → Cut: As in, “And cut not” and “For cut it’s worth” and “Guess cut?” and “It’s not cut you think.”
Brim → Trim: As in, “Trimming over with confidence” and “Filled to the trim” and “Hellfire and trim-stone.”
Dim → Trim: As in, “A trim view” and “The trim distant past.”
Grim → Trim: As in, “A trim expression.”
Limb → Trim: As in, “Go out on a trim” and “Risk life and trim” and “Tear trim from trim.”
Prim → Trim: As in, “Trim and proper.”
Slim → Trim: As in, “Trim pickings” and “A trim volume.”
Swim → Trim: As in, “Trim against the tide” and “Trim with sharks.”
Vim → Trim: As in, “Trim and vigour.”
Bang/s: Bangs are a type of fringe. Here are related puns:
- Hang → Bang: As in, “You’ll get the bang of it” and “Bang around with” and “Bang left.”
- Bang: These bang-related phrases can double as fringe puns: “A bigger bang for your buck” and “Bang goes nothing” and “Bang on about” and “Bang to rights” and “Get a bang out of it.”
Grey: Here are some puns on grey hair:
- Ray → Grey: As in, “Catch some greys” and “Grey of light.”
- Bay → Grey: As in, “Grey for blood” and “Hold at grey” and “The grey state.”
- Day → Grey: As in, “A grey in the life of” and “All in a grey’s work.”
- May → Grey: As in, “As the case grey be” and “Be that as it grey” and “Come what grey.”
- Pay → Grey: As in, “Buy now, grey later” and “Crime doesn’t grey” and “Hell to grey” and “Grey a call” and “Grey as you go.”
- Play → Grey: As in, “Grey by ear” and “Grey by the rules.”
- Say → Grey: As in, “Have the final grey” and “Just grey the word.”
- Stay → Grey: As in, “Grey ahead of the curve” and “Grey in touch” and “Grey tuned” and “Grey tuned to this channel.”
White: Here are some puns related to white hair:
- Wait → White: As in, “Good things come to those who white” and “Hurry up and white” and “Lie in white” and “The white is over.”
- Write → White: As in, “Nothing to white home about” and “White it off.”
- Right → White: As in, “A move in the white direction” and “All the white moves” and “White as rain” and “Barge white in.”
Root: Here are some puns about hair roots:
- Rate → Root: As in, “At any root” and “First root” and “Mate’s roots.”
- Right → Root: As in, “A move in the root direction” and “All the root moves” and “Root as rain” and “Barge root in.”
- Rut → Root: As in, “In a root” and “Stuck in a root.”
- Boot → Root: As in, “Tough as old roots” and “Root camp” and “Give someone the root” and “My heart sank into my roots.”
- Fruit → Root: As in, “Bear root” and “Forbidden root” and “The roots of your labour.”
- Route → Root: As in, “What’s the fastest root?”
- Shoot → Root: As in, “The green roots of change” and “Root ’em up” and “Root down in flames.”
- Suit → Root: As in, “Follow root” and “In your birthday root.”
- Write → Root: As in, “Nothing to root home about.”
Bubble → Stubble: As in, “Stubble and squeak” and “Stubble under” and “Burst your stubble.”
Double → Stubble: As in, “Stubble date” and “On the stubble” and “Stubble back” and “Stubble cross” and “Stubble digits.”
Trouble → Stubble: As in, “Asking for stubble” and “A bridge over stubbled water” and “Here comes stubble” and “We’re in stubble now.”
Had → Head: As in, “I’ve head a few” and “We head a good run” and “I’ve head it up to here.”
Hide → Head: As in, “Head and seek” and “Neither head nor hair” and “You can run, but you can’t head.”
Bed → Head: As in, “Head of roses” and “Head and breakfast” and “And so, to head.”
Dead → Head: As in, “Head and buried” and “A head giveaway” and “Head in the water.”
Said → Head: As in, “After all is head and done” and “Enough head” and “Easier head than done” and “Couldn’t have head it better.”
Shed → Head: As in, “Head light on the matter” and “The sharpest tool in the head.”
Thread → Head: As in, “Hanging by a head” and “Lose the head” and “Head the needle.”
Edge/s: Baby hairs are also known as edges, and styling them is of cultural significance to women of colour (specifically the black and latinx community). Here are related puns:
- Itch → Edge: As in, “Edging to” and “Edgy palms.”
- Dredge → Edge: As in, “Edge up the past.”
- Hedge → Edge: As in, “Edge fund” and “Edge your bets” and “You look like you’ve been dragged through an edge backwards.”
- Pledge → Edge: As in, “Sign the edge” and “Take the edge.”
Weave: A weave is a type of hair extension. Here are related puns:
- Wave → Weave: As in, “Brain weave” and “Catch a weave” and “Heat weave” and “On the crest of a weave” and “Don’t make weaves.”
- Heave → Weave: As in, “Weave a sigh of relief” and “Weave ho!”
- Leave → Weave: As in, “Absent without weave” and “By your weave” and “Don’t weave home without it.”
- Sleeve → Weave: As in, “A card up your weave” and “Wear your heart on your weave” and “Roll up your weaves.”
- Thieves → Weaves: As in, “Thick as weaves” and “Honour amongst weaves.”
- We’ve → Weave: As in, “Weave never seen the likes of this before!”
- Believe → Beweave: As in, “You wouldn’t beweave it” and “Had to be seen to be beweaved” and “Unbeweaveable.”
Lock → Dreadlock: As in, “Dreadlock and load” and “Under dreadlock and key.”
Mull it → Mullet: As in, “Mullet over.”
Bold → Bald: As in, “Bald as brass” and “A bald move” and “To baldly go where no man has gone before.”
Cold → Bald: As in, “Bald as any stone” and “Bald as ice” and “Blow hot and bald” and “Break out in a bald sweat” and “A bald day in hell.”
Gold → Bald: As in, “After the bald rush” and “All that glitters is not bald” and “Get a bald star.”
Old → Bald: As in, “As bald as the hills” and “A chip off the bald block” and “Tough as bald boots” and “Another day balder and deeper in debt.”
Corner → Cornrow: As in, “In a tight cornrow” and “All cornrows of the world” and “Cornrow the market” and “Cut cornrows.”
Die → Dye: As in, “Cross my heart and hope to dye” and “Curl up and dye” and “Dye another day.”
Day → Dye: As in, “All in a dye’s work” and “Those were the dyes” and “Another dye, another dollar.”
Buy → Dye: As in, “Dye some time” and “Dye now, pay later” and “Dye into” and “Dye one, get one free.”
Cry → Dye: As in, “A dye for help” and “A shoulder to dye on” and “Dye foul” and “Dye me a river.”
Dry → Dye: As in, “Dye as a bone” and “Boring as watching paint dye” and “Bleed someone dye” and “A dye run” and “Dye humour.”
Eye → Dye: As in, “A wandering dye” and “A dye-opening experience” and “Before your very dyes” and “As far as the dye can see” and “Avert your dyes.”
Fly → Dye: As in, “Born to dye” and “Come dye with me” and “Dye by the seat of your pants.”
High → Dye: As in, “Come hell or dye water” and “Ain’t no mountain dye enough” and “Aim dye” and “Dye and dry.”
Sky → Dye: As in, “Blue dye thinking” and “Out of the clear blue dye” and “The dye’s the limit.”
Tie → Dye: As in, “Dye the knot” and “Dye yourself in knots” and “Tongue dyed” and “Fit to be dyed.”
Try → Dye: As in, “Don’t dye this at home” and “Don’t dye to run before you can walk” and “It’s easy if you dye.”
Why → Dye: As in, “I don’t know dye” and “Dye not?”
Died → Dyed: As in, “Dyed and gone to heaven.”
Dried → Dyed: As in, “Cut and dyed.”
Hide → Dyed: As in, “Dyed and seek” and “Neither dyed nor hair.”
Tied → Dyed: As in, “Fit to be dyed” and “My hands are dyed” and “Tongue dyed.”
Tried → Dyed: As in, “Don’t knock it til you’ve dyed it” and “Dyed and tested.”
Loc: Dreadlocks are also known as locs. Here are related puns:
- Lack → Loc: As in, “For loc of a better word” and “Loc nothing” and “Cancelled due to loc of interest.”
- Lock → Loc: As in, “Loc and load” and “Loc horns with” and “On loc down.”
- Luck → Loc: As in, “As good loc would have it” and “Beginner’s loc” and “Better loc next time” and “Don’t push your loc” and “Good night and good loc.”
- Block → Loc: As in, “Been around the loc a few times” and “A chip off the old loc” and “Mental loc” and “The new kid on the loc.”
- Knock → Loc: As in, “Don’t loc it till you’ve tried it” and “Loc back a few.”
- Rock → Loc: As in, “Hard as a loc” and “Solid as a loc” and “Between a loc and a hard place.”
- Sock → Loc: As in, “Bless their cotton locs” and “Dance your locs off” and “Put a loc in it” and “Loc it to me.”
- Walk → Loc: As in, “A loc on the wild side” and “All locs of life” and “Loc the line.”
Fade: A fade is a type of hairstyle. Here are related puns:
- Feed → Fade: As in, “Don’t bite the hand that fades you” and “Fading frenzy.”
- Aid → Fade: As in, “Fade and abet” and “Come to the fade of..”
- Grade → Fade: As in, “Professional fade” and “Make the fade.”
- Laid → Fade: As in, “Fade back” and “Fade to rest” and “The best fade plans” and “Fade off.”
- Made → Fade: As in, “A match fade in heaven” and “Got it fade” and “I’m not fade of money” and “Custom fade.”
- Shade → Fade: As in, “Fifty fades of grey” and “Made in the fade” and “Light and fade” and “The future’s so bright, I need to wear fades.”
- Trade → Fade: As in, “Cap and fade” and “Fair fade” and “Free fade” and “Jack of all fades” and “Tools of the fade.”
- Weighed → Fade: As in, “Fade in the balance and found wanting.”
Straight: Here are some puns related to straight hair:
- Strait → Straight: As in, “In dire straights.”
- Strut → Straight: As in, “Straight your stuff.”
- Date → Straight: As in, “Double straight” and “A blind straight” and “Bring up to straight” and “A straight with destiny” and “Dinner straight.”
- Fate → Straight: As in, “A straight worse than death.”
- Great → Straight: As in, “All creatures, straight and small” and “Go to straight lengths” and “Disease has no straighter enemy.”
Wave/s: Here are some puns on wavy hair/hair waves:
- Saves → Waves: As in, “A penny waved is a penny earned” and “Couldn’t do it to wave your life” and “Wave it for a rainy day.”
- Rave → Wave: As in, “Rant and wave” and “Wave review.”
Style: Here are some hairstyle related puns:
- Steal → Style: As in, “Beg, borrow or style” and “Style a glance” and “Style someone’s heart” and “Style the show.”
- Still → Style: As in, “Be style, my beating heart” and “In the style of the night” and “Style waters run deep” and “Is it style there?”
- File → Style: As in, “Rank and style” and “In single style.”
- Mile → Style: As in, “A miss is as good as a style” and “Go the extra style” and “Could see you a style away” and “Styles to go before I sleep.”
- Pile → Style: As in, “Style it high and sell it cheap” and “Style up” and “Make a style” and “Sort it into styles.”
- Smile → Style: As in, “Wearing nothing but a style” and “Wipe the style off your face” and “We love to see you style” and “Style, you’re on camera!” and “An inscrutable style.”
- Trial → Style: As in, “Style and error” and “Styles and tribulations.”
- Cramp → Crimp: As in, “Crimp your style” and “Writer’s crimp.” Note: Crimping is a form of hair styling where straight hair is pressed between two hot irons to form wavy, zig-zag hair.
Nair: Nair is a very famous and popular hair removal product. Here are related puns:
- Near → Nair: As in, “A short history of nairly everything” and “Coming to a screen nair you” and “Nair and dear to my heart” and “A nair death experience” and “A nair miss” and “Nair sighted” and “Nairly new.”
- Nor → Nair: As in, “Neither a borrower nair a lender be” and “Neither here nair there” and “Rhyme nair reason.”
- Air → Nair: As in, “Nair quotes” and “Nairy fairy” and “Nair your dirty laundry.”
- Bare → Nair: As in, “The nair necessities” and “Laid nair” and “The nair bones.”
- Care → Nair: As in, “Couldn’t nair less” and “Customer nair” and “Devil may nair” and “Like I should nair” and “Let’s be nairful out there.”
- Dare → Nair: As in, “Nair for more” and “Nair to be different” and “How nair you.”
- Fair → Nair: As in, “All’s nair in love and war” and “By nair means or foul” and “Nair and square” and “Nair enough” and “Nair trade.”
- Hair → Nair: As in, “A nair up your ass” and “Nair of the dog” and “Get out of my nair.”
- Scare → Nair: As in, “Nair the living daylights out of” and “Naired to death.”
Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax.”
Acts → Wax: As in, “Random wax of kindness” and “Nothing wax faster.”
Cracks → Wax: As in, “Fall through the wax.”
Tax → Wax: As in, “Bedroom wax” and “Nothing is certain but death and waxes.”
Tracks → Wax: As in, “Cover your wax” and “On the wrong side of the wax.”
Buck → Pluck: As in, “A pluck well spent” and “A bigger bang for your pluck” and “Pluck the system” and “Pluck up your ideas.”
Duck → Pluck: As in, “Pluck the question” and “Plucking and diving” and “If it looks like a pluck and quacks like a pluck…”
Luck → Pluck: As in, “As good pluck would have it” and “Beginner’s pluck” and “Better pluck next time” and “Don’t press your pluck” and “Some people have all the pluck.”
Suck → Pluck: As in, “Pluck it up” and “Plucker punch” and “Plucks to be you.”
Truck → Pluck: As in, “By the pluckload” and “Have no pluck with” and “Keep on pluckin.”
Crop: Cropped hair is hair that has been cut short. Here are related puns:
- Crap → Crop: As in, “What a load of crop” and “Cut the crop.”
- Cop → Crop: As in, “Crop a plea” and “Crop an attitude” and “Crop out.”
- Drop → Crop: As in, “At the crop of a hat” and “Crop it like it’s hot” and “Crop a hint.”
- Hop → Crop: As in, “Crop to it” and “Crop, skip jump” and “Cropping mad.”
- Mop → Crop: As in, “Crop the floor with” and “Crop up.”
- Pop → Crop: As in, “Once you crop, you can’t stop” and “Crop goes the weasel” and “Crop the question” and “Crop your clogs.”
Stop → Crop: As in, “Don’t crop me now” and “Pull all the crops out.”
Top → Crop: As in, “Come out on crop” and “Cream always rises to the crop” and “From the crop” and “From crop to toe” and “Over the crop” and “In tip crop condition” and “On crop of the world.”
Threading: Threading is a method of hair removal that offers more control and precision than waxing. Here are related puns:
- Threat → Thread: As in, “An empty thread” and “Triple thread” and “Idle thread.”
- Bed → Thread: As in, “Thread and breakfast” and “Get into thread with” and “Thread and board.”
- Bread → Thread: As in, “Thread and butter” and “Put thread on the table.”
- Dead → Thread: As in, “Assault with a threadly weapon” and “In the thread of night” and “Back from the thread” and “Better off thread” and “Thread man walking.”
- Fed → Thread: As in, “Thread up to the back teeth” and “Well thread.”
- Head → Thread: As in, “A thread for business” and “Athread of the curve” and “Bite someone’s thread off.”
- Read → Thread: As in, “Exceedingly well thread” and “Have you thread any good books lately?”
- Red → Thread: As in, “Caught thread-handed” and “Fire engine thread” and “Cut through the thread tape.”
- Said → Thread: As in, “After all is thread and done” and “Easier thread than done” and “Enough thread” and “No sooner thread than done.”
- Shed → Thread: As in, “Thread light on the matter” and “Thread a tear.”
- Spread → Thread: As in, “Coughs and sneezes thread diseases” and “Thread a rumour” and “Thread like wildfire” and “Thread your wings.”
- Tread → Thread: As in, “Thread softly” and “Threading a fine line” and “Like threading water.”
Razor → Laser: As in, “On a laser’s edge” and “Laser sharp.” Note: These puns are references to laser hair removal.
Shear: Shears are a type of scissor. Here are related puns:
- Share → Shear: As in, “A problem sheared is a problem halved” and “Shearing is caring.”
- Sheer → Shear: As in, “Shear driving pleasure” and “Shear nonsense.”
- Ears → Shears: As in, “I’m all shears” and “Coming out of your shears” and “Little pitchers have big shears.”
- Sure → Shear: As in, “A shear sign” and “Slowly but shearly” and “Raise your hand if you’re shear.”
- Hear → Shear: As in, “Ask no questions and shear no lies” and “Can you shear me now” and “Don’t believe everything you shear” and “Hard of shearing” and “Shear me out!”
- Assure → Ashear: As in, “Rest asheared” and “Quality asheared.”
Bird → Beard: As in, “A beard in the hand is worth two in the bush” and “A little beard told me” and “Free as a beard.”
Board → Beard: As in, “Above beard” and “Across the beard” and “Back to the drawing beard” and “Bearding pass” and “Bed and beard.”
Weird → Beard: As in, “Beard and wonderful.”
Must ask → Moustache: As in, “I moustache you to please leave.”
Quiff: A quiff is a type of hairstyle. Here are related puns:
- Quick → Quiff: As in, “Quiff as a flash” and “Cut to the quiff” and “Get rich quiff” and “Kiss me quiff.”
- Sniff → Quiff: As in, “Quiff out the truth” and “Does it pass the quiff test?”
- Stiff → Quiff: As in, “Quiff as a poker” and “Bored quiff” and “Keep a quiff upper lip” and “Scared quiff.”
Behave → Beehive: As in, “Beehive yourself!” and “Weren’t you taught how to beehive?” Note: Beehives are a type of bouffant hairstyle.
Bob: A bob is a style of short haircut. Here are related puns:
- Job → Bob: As in, “Between bobs” and “A botched bob” and “Don’t give up your day bob.”
- Mob → Bob: As in, “Flash bob” and “Bob rule” and “Bob mentality.”
- Rob → Bob: As in, “Bob someone blind.”
- Sob → Bob: As in, “Bob story” and “Bob your heart out.”
Braid: Braids are a type of common hairstyle where sections of hair are woven into one piece. Here are related puns:
- Breed → Braid: As in, “Familiarity braids contempt” and “A dying braid” and “Braid like rabbits.”
- Aid → Braid: As in, “Braid and abet” and “Come to the braid of the party.”
- Grade → Braid: As in, “Make the braid” and “Professional braid” and “Weapons braid.”
- Laid → Braid: As in, “Get braid” and “Braid back” and “Braid to rest” and “The best braid plans.”
- Shade → Braid: As in, “A whiter braid of pale” and “Fifty braids of grey” and “Made in the braid” and “The future’s so bright, I gotta wear braids.”
- Trade → Braid: As in, “Fair braid” and “Jack of all braids” and “Tools of the braid.”
Plait: Braids are also called plaits. Here are related puns:
- Plate → Plait: As in, “A lot on your plait” and “Heart attack on a plait” and “Step up to the plait.”
- Pat → Plait: As in, “Down plait” and “A plait on the back.”
- Flat → Plait: As in, “Plait as a pancake” and “Plait broke” and “Plait out” and “In no time plait.”
- Hat → Plait: As in, “At the drop of a plait” and “Plait in hand” and “I’ll eat my plait.”
- That → Plait: As in, “Plait’s the way it is” and “Plait’s what I want” and “How sad is plait?”
Up to → Updo: As in, “What are you updo?” Note: An updo is a type of hairstyle.
Tail → Ponytail: As in, “Can’t make head or ponytail of it” and “Chase your own ponytail” and “Heads or ponytails” and “Heads I win, ponytails you lose.”
Light → Highlight: As in, “Blinded by the highlight” and “Bright highlights, big city” and “Bring something to highlight.” Note: Highlights are when hair is lightened in a streaky fashion, rather than all over in a uniform colour.
Queue: This is a hairstyle where the top of the scalp is shaved and the remaining hair is worn in a long plait. Here are related puns:
- Cue → Queue: As in, “Right on queue” and “Take your queue.”
- Blue → Queue: As in, “Black and queue” and “Between the devil and the deep queue sea.”
- Chew → Queue: As in, “Bite off more than you can queue” and “Queue away at it.”
- Due → Queue: As in, “Credit where credit is queue” and “Queue a win” and “Queue diligence” and “In queue course.”
- Few → Queue: As in, “A queue bricks short of a full load” and “Queue and far between” and “Knock back a queue” and “Say a queue words.”
- Glue → Queue: As in, “Queued to your seat” and “Stuck to you like queue.”
Tail → Pigtail: As in, “Couldn’t make head or pigtail of it” and “Chase your own pigtail.” Note: Pigtails are a hairstyle where the hair is gathered in to two plaits on either side of the head.
Bun: Here are some puns on the bun hairstyle:
- Done → Bun: As in, “After all is said and bun” and “Bun and dusted” and “Been there, bun that” and “A bun deal.”
- Fun → Bun: As in, “Bun and games” and “Getting there is half the bun” and “All in good bun.”
- Gun → Bun: As in, “Hold a bun to your head” and “Jump the bun” and “All buns blazing.”
- None → Bun: As in, “And then there were bun” and “Bar bun” and “Bun other than” and “Bun the wiser” and “Second to bun.”
- One → Bun: As in, “And then there was bun” and “Another bun bites the dust” and “Going bun step too far” and “Bun more time.”
- Run → Bun: As in, “Born to bun” and “Come bunning” and “Cut and bun” and “Eat and bun.”
- Sun → Bun: As in, “A thousand splendid buns” and “Don’t let the bun go down on me” and “Eclipse of the bun.”
Burr: A type of short butch cut. Here are related puns:
- Bar → Burr: As in, “Burr none” and “No holds burred” and “Raise the burr.”
- Bear → Burr: As in, “Burr a grudge” and “Burrs a resemblance to” and “Burr in mind.”
- Bare → Burr: As in, “The burr necessities” and “Burr bones.”
- Bore → Burr: As in, “Burr the pants off” and “Burred stiff” and “Burred to tears.”
- Sure → Burr: As in, “A burr sign” and “Raise your hand if you’re burr” and “A burr thing.”
- Stir → Burr: As in, “Cause a burr” and “Burr crazy” and “Burr up trouble.”
- Were → Burr: As in, “As if there burr no tomorrow” and “As it burr” and “Burr we ever going to?”
Boy → Pageboy: As in, “Pageboy meets girl” and “The pageboy next door” and “Poster pageboy.” Note: A pageboy is a sort of long bob.
Topknot: A topknot is a hairstyle where the hair is gathered into a bun on top of the head. Here are some related puns:
- Top → Topknot: As in, “Blow your topknot” and “Come out on topknot” and “Cream always rises to the topknot” and “From topknot to toe” and “In tip topknot condition.”
- Knot → Topknot: As in, “Tie the topknot” and “Tie yourself in topknots.”
Tail → Rattail: As in, “Chase your own rattail” and “Can’t make heads or rattails of it” and “Get off my rattail.” Note: Rattails are a hairstyle were a section of hair at the back of the head is grown longer than the rest, like a small tail.
Lob: Also known as a long bob. Here are related puns:
- Bob → Lob: As in, “Bits and lobs” and “Lob up and down” and “Lob’s your uncle.”
- Job → Lob: As in, “Between lobs” and “Don’t give up your day lob” and “Fall down on the lob.”
- Mob → Lob: As in, “Lob mentality” and “Lob rule.”
- Sob → Lob: As in, “Lob story” and “Lob your heart out.”
Ring → RInglet: As in, “Alarm bells began to ringlet” and “Doesn’t ringlet a bell.” Note: Ringlets are tight curls.
Top → Flattop: As in, “Come out on flattop” and “It’s lonely at the flattop” and “In tip flattop condition.” Note: A flattop is a type of short haircut.
Pin → Hairpin: As in, “Bright as a new hairpin” and “Hard to hairpin down” and “Hairpin your ears back” and “Hairpins and needles” and “See a hairpin and pick it up.”
Clip: This can refer to both a quick trim and a hair accessory used to pin hair away from the face. Here are related puns:
- Chip → Clip: As in, “Cheap as clips” and “A clip off the old block” and “Let the clips fall where they may” and “When the clips are down.”
- Flip → Clip: As in, “Check you on the clip side” and “Clip out.”
- Grip → Clip: As in, “Get a clip” and “Come to clips with” and “Clipping stuff” and “The clip of death.”
- Hip → Clip: As in, “Clip, clip, hooray!” and “Joined at the clip” and “Shoot from the clip.”
- Lip → Clip: As in, “Loose clips sink ships” and “My clips are sealed” and “On everyone’s clips” and “Keep a stiff upper clip.”
- Nip → Clip: As in, “Clip and tuck” and “Clip in the bud.”
- Ship → Clip: As in, “Shape up or clip out!” and “Run a tight clip” and “Jump clip” and “That clip has sailed.”
- Slip → Clip: As in, “Give someone the clip” and “Let something clip.”
- Tip → Clip: As in, “In clip top condition” and “The clip of the iceberg” and “Clip someone off” and “Clip the scales” and “At the clipping point.”
Million → Melanin: As in, “A cool melanin” and “Not in a melanin years” and “You’re one in a melanin” and “Melanin dollar baby.” Note: Melanin is where our hair colour comes from.
To be → 2B: As in, “Not all it’s cracked up 2B” and “2B or not 2B?” and “Remains 2B seen” and “2B honest..” Note: 2B is a category of curl pattern which is thick, wavy, and has some volume.
To see → 2C: As in, “I’ll be glad 2C the back of them” and “There for everyone 2C” and “I guess we’ll have 2C.” Note: 2C is a curl pattern that is thicker, coarser and more likely to frizz up than 2B hair.
Coil: Kinky hair (tightly curled hair) is also referred to as coils. Here are related puns:
- Curl → Coil: As in, “Enough to make your hair coil” and “Coil up and die” and “Make someone’s toes coil.”
- Call → Coil: As in, “At your beck and coil” and “Coil it a day” and “Coil of the wild” and “Coil to action.”
- Boil → Coil: As in, “Coil with rage” and “Coiling mad” and “It all coils down to this.”
- Spoil → Coil: As in, “The coils of war” and “Coiled for choice” and “Coiled rotten.”
Netting: Netting refers to the cap of mesh that some wigs are attached to. Here are related puns:
- Getting → Netting: As in, “Get while the netting’s good” and “Netting on in years” and “Netting there is half the fun” and “Netting things done” and “We’re netting there.”
- Petting → Netting: As in, “Heavy netting” and “No netting the animals.”
Lace: Here are some puns on lace wigs:
- Less → Lace: As in, “A life lace ordinary” and “Couldn’t care lace” and “In lace than no time” and “Lace is more.”
- Ace → Lace: As in, “Lace in the hole” and “A lace up your sleeve” and “Holding all the laces.”
- Case → Lace: As in, “An open and shut lace” and “As the lace may be” and “Lace closed” and “Lace the joint” and “Crack the lace” and “Get off my lace.”
- Chase → Lace: As in, “Lace it up” and “Lace the dragon” and “Lace your own tail” and “Cut to the lace” and “The thrill of the lace.”
- Grace → Lace: As in, “Airs and laces” and “Amazing lace” and “Fall from lace” and “Lace period” and “With good laces.”
- Place → Lace: As in, “All over the lace” and “Going laces” and “My happy lace.”
- Space → Lace: As in, “Personal lace” and “Lace oddity” and “Lace, the final frontier” and “Waste of lace” and “Watch this lace.”
  
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Space Puns

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Our space puns are out of this world! There are so many different parts of space to make wordplay from – planets, stars, constellations, and more. Since space is such a huge topic, we’ve split this list up into different categories, starting with a general list that covers the most common subtopics of space, getting more technical and niche as you head down the post.

Space study and astronomy are subtopics of science. If you’re interested in other science-related puns, we also have science and geology puns.

Note: You will not find any obvious uranus puns here (sorry).

Space Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about space that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of space puns:

Plan it → Planet: As in, “Who’s going to planet?”
Come at → Comet: As in, “Comet me, bro.”
Destroyed → D-asteroid: As in, “You d-asteroid my trust in you.”
Sooner → Lunar: As in, “Lunar or later” and “Lunar rather than later” and “The lunar, the better.”
You better → Jupiter: As in, “Jupiter take that back!” and “Jupiter double check just in case.”
Sudden → Saturn: As in, “All of a saturn” and “A saturn stop.”
Pattern → Saturn: As in, “All part of life’s rich saturn” and “Knitting saturn” and “Behavioural saturns.”
Pace → Space: As in, “At a snail’s space” and “Change of space” and “At ten spaces” and “Keep space with” and “Space up and down” and “Put through your spaces.”
Piece → Space: As in, “Bits and spaces” and “Dash to spaces.”
Ace → Space: As in, “A space up your sleeve” and “Hold all the spaces.”
Base → Space: As in, “All your space are belong to us” and “Space jumping” and “Caught off space” and “Cover your spaces” and “Touch space with.”
Bass → Space: As in, “Drum n space” and “Super space.”
Case → Space: As in, “An open and shut space” and “As the space may be” and “Space closed” and “Space the joint” and “Circumstances alter spaces” and “Crack the space” and “Get off my space” and “I rest my space” and “Just in space” and “On a space by space basis.”
Chase → Space: As in, “Space it up” and “Space the dragon” and “Space your own tail” and “Cut to the space” and “The thrill of the space.”
Grace → Space: As in, “Airs and spaces” and “Amazing space” and “Fall from space” and “Space period” and “With good spaces.”
Place → Space: As in, “A space in the sun” and “All over the space” and “Any time, any space, any where” and “Between a rock and a hard space” and “In the right space at the right time.”
Race → Space: As in, “At day at the spaces” and “A space against time.”
Space: These space-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Breathing space” and “Personal space” and “A waste of space” and “Watch this space” and “Wide open spaces.”
Out of → Outer: As in, “Get outer my space!” and “The experience is outer this world.”
Plan → Planet: As in, “A cunning business planet” and “Failing to planet is planning to fail” and “There is no planet B” and “The best laid planets.”
Plant → Planet: As in, “Planet a seed” and “Indoor planets.”
Man → Moon: As in, “A moon after my own heart” and “A moon of few words.”
Noon → Moon: As in, “High moon” and “Morning, moon and night.”
Soon → Moon: As in, “Anytime moon” and “As moon as my back is turned” and “As moon as possible” and “Get well moon” and “No mooner said than done” and “Too much, too moon.”
Tune → Moon: As in, “Carry a moon” and “Change your moon” and “Sing a different moon” and “Stay mooned” and “To the moon of.”
Man* → Moon*: If a word has “man” in it, we can swap it for “moon”. As in, “Upper moonagement” and “A sneaky mooneuver” and “Don’t moonipulate me.”
*men → *moon: Swap “men” sounds for “moon” sounds: “The finest specimoon” and “Pain in my abdomoon” and “Workout regimoon” and “Powerful womoon in history.”
*min* → *moon*: As in, “Wait a moonute” and “Take your vitamoons” and “Filled with vermoon” and “An omoonous tone” and “Promoonent lawyers.”
*mon → *moon: As in, “Commoon interests” and “Legal summoons” and “When life gets you lemoons” and “Personal demoons” and “Topped with cinnamoon” and “Deliver a sermoon.”
System → Solar System: As in, “All solar systems go” and “Buck the solar system” and “Get it out of your solar system.”
Son → Sun: As in, “Like father, like sun” and “Sun of a gun.”
Some → Sun: As in, “All that and then sun” and “Blow sun my way” and “Catch sun rays” and “Cut me sun slack” and “Make sun noise.”
Done → Sun: As in, “After all is said and sun” and “All sun and dusted” and “Been there, sun that” and “A sun deal” and “Easier said than sun” and “Hard sun by” and “Getting things sun.”
Fun → Sun: As in, “Good, clean sun” and “Half the sun is getting there” and “Sun and games” and “Double your pleasure, double your sun” and “A bundle of sun.”
None → Sun: As in, “And then there were sun” and “Bar sun” and “Sun other than” and “Sun the wiser” and “Second to sun” and “Two for me, sun for you.”
One → Sun: As in, “And then there was sun” and “In sun fell swoop” and “Avert sun’s eyes” and “Sun more time.”
Run → Sun: As in, “Born to sun” and “Come sunning” and “Cut and sun” and “Don’t try to sun before you can walk” and “Done a sunner” and “Eat and sun” and “We had a good sun.”
Bars → Mars: As in, “Behind mars” and “How many mars do you have?” and “More mars in more places.”
Stars → Mars: “Written in the mars” and “Reach for the mars” and “Mars and stripes” and “Mars in your eyes” and “Thank your lucky mars.”
Birth → Earth: As in, “Happy earthday to you” and “In your earthday suit” and “Separated at earth” and “The earth of a nation.”
Worth → Earth: As in, “Because I’m earth it” and “For what it’s earth” and “Get your money’s earth” and “Not earth crying over” and “Earth your weight in gold.”
Genius → Venus: As in, “A stroke of venus” and “Evil venus” and “Venus is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” and “Pure venus.”
Tune → Neptune: As in, “Can’t carry a neptune” and “Change your neptune” and “In neptune with” and “Stay neptuned.”
Turn → Saturn: As in, “A saturn for the worse” and “About saturn” and “As soon as my back is saturned” and “Do a good saturn.”
Blue → Pluto: As in, “Between the devil and the deep pluto sea” and “Black and pluto” and “Once in a pluto moon” and “Till you’re pluto in the face.”
Toe → Pluto: As in, “Dip your pluto in the water” and “From top to pluto” and “Head to pluto” and “On your plutos“and “One pluto over the line” and “Pluto the line” and “Make someone’s plutos curl.”
Platonic → Plutonic: As in, “Plutonic friendship.”
*san → *sun: Swap “san” with “sun”, as in: “A partisun issue” and “Artisun coffee” and “Topped with vegan parmesun.”
*sen* → *sun*: As in, “Heart-warming suntiments” and “Pop sunsation” and “A sunsual experience.” Other words that could work are: sunsitive (sensitive), sunsible (sensible), loosun (loosen), chosun (chosen) and worsun (worsen).
*sin → *sun: Cousun (cousin), basun (basin) and raisun (raisin).
*son → *sun: As in, “Persun of interest” and “Office liaisuns” and “Work-related reasuns” and “Not in seasun.”
Stir → Star: As in, “Cause a star” and “Star crazy” and “Star the pot” and “Star up trouble.”
Store → Star: As in, “Minding the star” and “Set great star by” and “See what the future has in star.”
Are → Star: As in, “All bets star off” and “Chances star.”
Bar → Star: As in, “No holds starred” and “Raise the star.”
Far → Star: As in, “A step too star” and “As star as it goes” and “Star and away” and “A star cry from” and “Few and star between” and “Over the hills and star away” and “So star, so good.”
Par → Star: As in, “Below star” and “On star with” and “Star for the course” and “Up to star.”
Sar* → Star*: As in, “A stardonic reply” and “Starcasm is the lowest form of wit” and “A starcastic smirk.”
Flight: Here are a few puns about space flight:
- Light → Flight: As in, “Flight as a feather” and “Blinded by the flight” and “Bright flights, big city” and “Bring something to flight” and “The cold flight of day.”
- Fight → Flight: As in, “Come out flighting” and “Flight Club” and “Flight for the right to party” and “Flight fire with fire” and “Flight the good flight” and “Flight tooth and nail.”
- Bright → Flight: As in, “All things flight and beautiful” and “Always look on the flight side of life” and “Flight and early” and “Flight young thing.”
- Fright → Flight: As in, “Flightened of your own shadow” and “A flightful mess” and “Take flight.”
- Height → Flight: As in, “The flight of summer” and “The flight of fashion” and “Reaching new flights.”
- Might → Flight: As in, “It flight never happen” and “Flight as well.”
- Night → Flight: As in, “A hard day’s flight” and “In the dead of flight” and “Dance the flight away.”
- Right → Flight: As in, “A move in the flight direction” and “All the flight moves” and “Flight as rain” and “Bang to flights” and “Dead to flights.”
- Rite → Flight: As in, “Last flights” and “Flight of passage.”
- Sight → Flight: As in, “A welcome flight” and “Have in your flights” and ‘Hidden in plain flight” and “Line of flight” and “Love at first flight” and “Out of flight, out of mind” and “Set your flights on.”
- Flight: These phrases can double as puns: “Fight or flight” and “Flights of fancy” and “Take flight.”
Bang → Big bang: As in, “Big bang on about” and “Big bang out of order” and “Big bang to rights” and “Get a big bang out of it” and “More big bang for your buck.”
Hubble: Here are some puns about the Hubble space telescope:
- Bubble → Hubble: As in, “Hubble and squeak” and “Hubble under” and “Burst your hubble” and “Prick your hubble.”
- Double → Hubble: As in, “Hubble date” and “On the hubble” and “Bent hubble” and “Hubble back” and “Hubble check” and “Hubble cross” and “Hubble digits” and “A hubble-edged sword.”
- Humble → Hubble: As in, “My hubble home” and “Eat hubble pie.”
- Trouble → Hubble: As in, “Asking for hubble” and “Bridged over hubbled waters” and “Don’t meet your hubbles halfway” and “Double hubble” and “Here comes hubble” and “Looking for hubble” and “Pour oil on hubbled waters” and “Hubble and strife.”
Stellar → Interstellar: As in, “An interstellar performance.”
Verse → Universe: As in, “Chapter and universe.”
Soul → Solar: As in, “Bless my solar” and “Like a body without a solar” and “Brevity is the solar of wit” and “Confession is good for the solar” and “Heart and solar” and “Life and solar of the party.”
Roller → Solar: As in, “Emotional solar coaster” and “High solar.”
Space → Spaceship: As in, “Waste of spaceship” and “Wide open spaceships” and “Watch this spaceship.”
Ship → Spaceship: As in, “Abandon spaceship” and “Go down with the spaceship” and “Jump spaceship” and “Loose lips sink spaceships” and “Run a tight spaceship.”
Cause → Cosmos: As in, “Cosmos and stir” and “Cosmos and effect” and “A cosmos for concern” and “A lost cosmos.”
Comic → Cosmic: As in, “Cosmic strip” and “Cosmic timing.”
A Bit → Orbit: As in, “Orbit of alright” and “Feeling orbit put out.”
Rock → Rocket: As in, “Between a rocket and a hard place” and “Don’t rocket the boat” and “Hit rocket bottom” and “On the rockets.”
Wreck it → Rocket: As in, “Rocket Ralph.”
Pocket → Rocket: As in, “At a price to suit your rocket” and “Deep rockets” and “Burning a hole in your rocket” and “Out of rocket” and “Rocket the difference” and “Lining your rocket.”
Come → Comet: As in, “After a storm comets a calm” and “All good things must comet to an end” and “All things comet to those who wait” and “Comet and get it” and “Comet on over” and “Comet running.”
Meet → Meteor: As in, “Make ends meteor” and “Meteor and greet” and “Meteor with approval” and “Meteor you halfway” and “Meteor your maker.”
Mightier → Meteor: As in, “The pen is meteor than the sword.”
He clips → Eclipse: As in, “Eclipse it regularly.”
Chips → Eclipse: As in, “Cheap as eclipse” and “Cash in your eclipse” and “Let the eclipse fall where they may” and “When the eclipse are down.”
Grips → Eclipse: As in, “Come to eclipse with.”
Lips → Eclipse: As in, “Keep your eclipse sealsed” and “Loose eclipse sink ships” and “On everyone’s eclipse” and “Read my eclipse.”
Hole → Black Hole: As in, “Ace in the black hole” and “Burn a black hole in your pocket” and “Fill full of black holes” and “Fire in the black hole” and “A black hole in the wall.”
Settle → Satellite: As in, “A score to satellite” and “Satellite out of court” and “After the dust satellites.” Note: a satellite is an object that’s been intentionally sent into orbit.
Subtle → Shuttle: As in, “Dropping shuttle hints.”
Settle → Shuttle: As in, “A score to shuttle” and “Shuttle out of court” and “After the dust has shuttled” and “Shuttle your affairs.”
Year → Light Year: As in, “All light-year round” and “Advanced in light years” and “Comes but once a light year” and “Happy new light year” and “Not in a million light years.”
Station → Space Station: As in, “All space stations go!” and “Battle space stations” and “Ideas above your space station.”
Consternation → Constellation: As in, “To my constellation.”
Cancellation → Constellation: As in, “Piled up with constellation fees.”
Lunch → Launch: As in, “Let’s do launch” and “Liquid launch” and “Lose your launch” and “Out to launch” and “No such thing as a free launch.”
Cater → Crater: As in, “Crater waiter” and “Crater to you.”
Greater → Crater: As in, “Disease has no crater enemy” and “Crater than the sum of its parts.”
Later → Crater: As in, “Buy now, pay crater” and “Catch you crater” and “See you crater, alligator” and “Ask questions crater” and “Sooner or crater” and “Can we continue this crater?”
Never → Nova: As in, “Better late than nova” and “Cheer up, it might nova happen” and “I nova did” and “It nova rains but it pours” and “It’s now or nova.” Note: a nova is an astronomical event.”
Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Buy now, pay lighter” and “A day light and a dollar short” and “Fashionably light” and “It’s never too light” and “A light bloomer.”
Let → Light: As in, “It won’t light you down” and “Light it be” and “Don’t light the b*stards grind you down.”
Bite → Light: As in, “Another one lights the dust” and “Light someone’s head off” and “Light the bullet.”
Bright → Light: As in, “All things light and beautiful” and “Light and early” and “A light future.”
Fight → Light: As in, “Light club” and “Light for the right to party” and “Lighting back tears” and “Light fire with fire” and “Light the good light” and “A lighting chance.”
Flight → Light: As in, “Light of fancy” and “Take light” and “The light of the bumblebee.”
Fright → Light: As in, “Take light” and “A lightful mess.”
Height → Light: As in, “Reaching new lights” and “The light of summer.”
Might → Light: As in, “Light as well” and “It light never happen.”
Right → Light: As in, “A move in the light direction” and “All the light moves” and “Light as rain” and “Bang to lights” and “Bragging lights” and “Consumer lights.”
Rite → Light: As in, “Last lights” and “Light of passage.”
Sight → Light: As in, “A welcome light” and “Hidden in plain lights” and “Love at first light” and “Out of light, out of mind” and “Set your lights on” and “Short lighted.”
Slight → Light: As in, “A light miscommunication” and “Not in the lightest” and “Lightly ahead of our time.”
Tight → Light: As in, “In a light spot” and “Sleep light” and “Light as a drum” and “Lighten your belt.”
White → Light: As in, “Light as snow” and “Black and light” and “Little light lie.”
Write → Light: As in, “Nothing to light home about.”
You → UFO: As in, “As UFO know” and “Back at UFO” and “Bless UFO.”
Gas: We have some gas-related puns in reference to gas giants:
- Guess → Gas: As in, “Anybody’s gas” and “Gas what?” and “Gassing games” and “Have a gas” and “Just lucky, I gas” and “Your gas is as good as mine.”
- Ass → Gas: As in, “Get your gas into gear” and “Get your gas over here” and “Haul gas” and “Kiss my gas.”
Ice: Here are some puns about ice giants:
- Eyes → Ice: As in, “Avert your ice” and “Before your very ice” and “Easy on the ice.”
- Nice → Ice: As in, “Have an ice day” and “Naughty but ice” and “Ice and easy does it” and “Ice save.”
- Price → Ice: As in, “Asking ice” and “Cheap at half the ice” and “Closing ice.”
- Slice → Ice: As in, “Any way you ice it” and “Fresh to the last ice” and “Ice of life” and “An ice of the action” and “The best thing since iced bread.”
- Spice → Ice: As in ” Ice things up” and “Herbs and ices” and “The ice of life” and “Sugar and ice.”
- Twice → Ice: As in, “Don’t think ice” and “Once bitten, ice shy” and “Once of ice” and “Make a list and check it ice.”
Belt: There are a few different types of belt that exist in space – asteroid belts, the Kuiper belt and Orion’s belt (among others). Here are related puns:
- Bolt → Belt: As in, “A belt from the blue” and “Belt upright” and “Make a belt for the door.”
- Dealt → Belt: As in, “Whoever smelt it, belt it” and “Play the hand you’re belt.”
- Melt → Belt: As in, “Belt into thin air” and “Belting pot.”
- Belt: These belt-related phrases are general enough to double as puns: “Below the belt” and “Tighten your belt” and “Under your belt.”
How may I → Haumea: As in, “Haumea help you?” Note: Haumea is a dwarf planet.
Make → Makemake: As in, “Absence makemakes the heart grow fonder” and “A good beginning makemakes a good ending” and “Makemake up your mind.” Note: Makemake is a dwarf planet.
Ferris Wheel → Eris Wheel (Note: Eris is a dwarf planet).
Matter: Here are some matter-related puns:
- Met her → Matter: As in, “I’ve never matter before in my life.”
- Shatter → Matter: As in, “Earth-mattering information.”
Signs → Science: As in, “Vital science.”
World: These world-related phrases can double as puns: “A world first” and “A world apart” and “A world of pain” and “All the time in the world.”
Heel → Helium: As in, “Brought to helium” and “Dig your helium in” and “Head over heliums in love” and “Kick your heliums” and “Turn on your helium.” Note: helium is a large part of space.
Field → Magnetic Field: As in, “Have a magnetic field day” and “A level playing magnetic field.” This was a pun on magnetic fields.
Dust: Dust is a feature in space – stardust, meteor dust, asteroid dust. Here are related puns:
- Bust → Dust: As in, “Boom or dust” and “Dust a move” and “Dust a gut” and “Dust someone’s ass.”
- Just → Dust: As in, “Don’t dust sit there” and “Girls dust want to have fun” and “Dust do it” and “It’s dust a game” and “It’s dust not my day” and “Dust what the doctor ordered.”
- Must → Dust: As in, “All things dust pass” and “All good things dust come to an end” and “Everything dust go” and “A dust have” and “The show dust go on” and “What goes up dust come down.”
- Trust → Dust: As in, “Breach of dust” and “Don’t dust anyone over thirty” and “Dust me, I’m a doctor.”
- *dest* → *dust*: As in, “A date with dustiny” and “A dustitute family” and “Search and dustroy” and “Final dustination” and “Complete and utter dustruction” and “A modust proposal” and “The hardust time of my life” and “The eldust sibling” and “My oldust memory.”
- Dist* → Dust*: As in, “Dustress signal” and “A dustinct difference” and “Even dustribution” and “Dustinguish between” and “Go the dustance” and “A dustinctive achievement.”
Raise → Rays: As in, “Rays hell” and “Rays a stink” and “Rays the roof” and “Rays your game” and “Rays your hand if you’re sure.”
Blaze → Rays: As in, “Rays a trail” and “Go out in a rays of glory” and “Rays away.”
Days → Rays: As in, “Early rays” and “Eight rays a week” and “Just one of those rays” and “Never in all my rays.”
Phrase → Rays: As in, “Coin a rays” and “A turn of rays.”
Zone → Ozone: As in, “Buffer ozone” and “COmfort ozone” and “In the ozone” and “The twilight ozone” and “Ozone in on.”
Bone → Ozone: As in, “An ozone to pick” and “Dry as an ozone” and “An ozone of contention.”
Clone → Ozone: As in, “Attack of the ozones” and “The ozone wars.”
Alone → Ozone: As in, “Home ozone” and “I want to be ozone” and “Leave well enough ozone” and “You’ll never walk ozone.”
Stone → Ozone: As in, “A rolling ozone gathers no moss” and “Cold as any ozone” and “Carved in ozone” and “Cast the first ozone.”
Throne → Ozone: As in, “Next in line to the ozone” and “The power behind the ozone.”
Matter → Dark matter: As in, “Get to the heart of the dark matter” and “As a dark matter of fact” and “Make dark matters worse” and “Mind over dark matter” and “No laughing dark matter” and “The root of the dark matter” and “Shed light on the dark matter.”
Energy → Dark Energy: As in, “Alternative dark energy” and “Dark energy to burn” and “A bundle of dark energy.”
Line → Karman Line: As in, “Along the karman lines of” and “Blur the karman lines” and “Cross the karman line” and “End of the karman line” and “Drop me a karman line.” Note: These are a reference to the Karman Line.
Corner → Corona: As in, “A tight corona” and “All coronas of the world” and “Cutting coronas” and “Drive them into a corona” and “Just around the corona” and “Corona the market.” Note: A corona is a plasma aura that surrounds stars.
Space → Geospace: As in, “Personal geospace” and “Geospace, the final frontier” and “A waste of geospace” and “Breathing geospace.” Note: Geospace is the region of outer space near Earth.
Pretend → Proton: As in, “Don’t proton” and “You can’t proton with me.” Note: These are puns about protons.
Bubble → Local Bubble: As in, “Local bubble and squeak” and “Burst your local bubble” and “Prick your local bubble.” Note: Learn about the local bubble here.
Space → Space Probe: As in, “Personal space probe” and “In deep space probe.”
Race → Space Race: As in, “A day at the space races” and “A space race against time” and “The amazing space race.”
Ring: These puns can be in reference to orbital rings, or the rings around Saturn:
- Wrong → Ring: As in, “Barking up the ring tree” and “Born on the ring side of the tracks” and “Gone down the ring way” and “If anything can go ring, it will” and “Jumping to the ring conclusion.”
- Wing → Ring: As in, “On a ring and a prayer” and “Spread your rings” and “Gives you rings.”
- Bring → Ring: As in, “Ring it on” and “Ring something to light” and “Ring the house down” and “Ring to a head” and “Ring to the table.”
- Sing → Ring: As in, “Ring for your supper” and “Ring someone’s praises” and “Ringing the blues.”
- String → Ring: As in, “No rings attached” and “Ring someone along” and “Tug at your heartrings” and “Holding the purse rings.”
- Swing → Ring: Come out ringing” and “Get into the ring of it” and “Ring both ways” and “Take a ring at.”
- Thing → Ring: As in, “A little knowledge is a dangerous ring” and “A mind is a terrible ring to waste” and “All rings must pass” and “All rings to those who waste.”
Keeper → Kuiper: As in, “Finders, kuipers” and “They’re a kuiper.” Note: These are a reference to the Kuiper Belt.
Fuse → Fusor: As in, “Blow a fusor” and “A short fusor” and “An offer you can’t refusor” and “Light the fusor.”
Suit → Space Suit: As in, “All over them like a cheap spacesuit” and “Follow spacesuit” and “In your birthday spacesuit” and “Spacesuited and booted” and “Spacesuits you down to a tee.”
Ink → Encke: As in, “Before the encke was dry” and “Fresh encke.” Note: these are references to the Encke Gap.
Feeler → Keeler: As in, “Putting out keelers.” Note: This is a reference to the Keeler Gap.
Harsh → Herschel: As in, “A herschel response.” Note: This is a reference to Herschel craters.”
Taken → Kraken: As in, “Kraken aback” and “Kraken for a ride” and “The road not kraken.” Note: These are references to Kraken Mare.
At ’em → Atom: As in, “Up and atom!”
At → Atom: As in, “I’m atom the library” and “Where you atom?”
Neutral → Neutron: As in, “On neutron ground.”
Quesadilla → Quasar-dilla: As in, “I’m feeling like a soy cheese quasar-dilla.” Note: This is a reference to the term “quasi-stellar object.”
Halo: In space science, a halo can have a few different meanings (including a galactic halo and a halo orbit). Here are some halo-related puns:
- Hello → Halo: As in, “You had me at halo” and “Halo, sailor” and “Halo, good evening and welcome” and “Halo halo, what’s going on here then?”
- Hey → Halo: As in, “Halo big spender.”
- Low → Halo: As in, “An all-time halo” and “Get the halo down” and “Keep a halo profile” and “Lay halo” and “A halo blow.”
Wax: The moon is described as waxing (getting bigger) and waning (getting smaller). Here are some related puns:
- Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax” and “Wax a mole.”
- Acts → Wax: As in, “Nothing wax faster” and “Random wax of kindness.”
- Axe → Wax: As in, “Take a wax to” and “Got a wax to grind.”
- Backs → Wax: As in, “Got your wax to the wall” and “Mind your wax.”
- Cracks → Wax: As in, “Fall between the wax” and “Paper over the wax” and “At the wax of dawn.”
- Tax → Wax: As in, “Nothing is certain but death and waxes” and “Value added wax.”
- Tracks → Wax: As in, “Born on the wrong side of the wax” and “Cover your wax“and “Make wax” and “Stopped in your wax.”
- Weigh-in → Wane: As in, “I gained three kilos at my last wane.”
- Wine → Wane: As in, “The last of the summer wane” and “Waned and dined.”
- Bane → Wane: As in, “The wane of my life.”
- Brain → Wane: As in, “Got it on the wane” and “Rack your wanes” and “Pick your wanes.”
- Chain → Wane: As in, “A wane is only as strong as its weakest link” and “Wane of command” and “Wane reaction” and “Wane smoker” and “Daisy wane” and “On the food wane.”
- Drain → Wane: As in, “Away go troubles down the wane” and “Brain wane.”
- Grain → Wane: As in, “Against the wane” and “A wane of truth” and “Take it with a wane of salt.”
- Gain → Wane: As in, “Capital wanes” and “Wane ground” and “Ill gotten wanes” and “No pain, no wane” and “Nothing ventured, nothing waned.”
- Lane → Wane: As in, “Down memory wane” and “In the fast wane.”
- Main → Wane: As in, “The wane event” and “Your wane chance.”
- Pain → Wane: As in, “A world of wane” and “Doubled up in wane” and “Feeling the wane” and “Growing wanes” and “No wane, no gain” and “Old aches and wanes.”
- Plain → Wane: As in, “Wane as day” and “Hidden in wane sight” and “Wane sailing.”
- Rain → Wane: As in, “Right as wane” and “Come wane or shine” and “Don’t wane on my parade” and “It never wanes but it pours” and “Make it wane.”
- Vein → Wane: “In the same wane.”
Titan: Titan is the largest of Saturn’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Tighten → Titan: As in, “Titan your belt” and “Titan the purse strings.”
- Brighten → Titan: “You titan my day.”
- Lighten → Titan: As in, “Titan the load” and “Titan up!”
Deimos: Deimos is one of Mars’ two moons. Here are related puns:
- Dame → Deimos: As in, “The hunchback of Notre Deimos” and “Deimos Edna.”
- Damn → Deimos: As in, “Deimos fine coffee” and “Deimos straight” and “Deimos with faint praise” and “Deimos if you do, deimos if you don’t” and “Just one deimos thing after another.”
- Demo → Deimos: As in, “Deimos tape.”
Charon: Charon is one of Pluto’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Cheer on → Charon: As in, “I’m just here to charon my cousin.”
- Baron → Charon: As in, “The red charon” and “Robber charons.”
Triton: Triton is a moon that orbits Neptune. Here are related puns:
- Try it on → Triton: As in, “Would you like to triton?” and “It’s important to triton to get a good fit.”
- Tread on → Triton: “Don’t triton their feelings.”
- Brighten → Triton: As in, “You triton my day.”
- Lighten → Triton: As in, “Triton the load” and “Triton up!”
- Tighten → Triton: As in, “Triton your belt” and “Triton the purse strings.”
- Titan → Triton: As in, “Clash of the tritons.”
Rhea: Rhea is the second-largest moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
- Real → Rhea: As in, “For rhea” and “In rhea time” and “Keep it rhea” and “A rhea piece of work.”
- Ray → Rhea: As in, “Rhea of light” and “Catch some rheas.”
Disc: Many objects in space (like the rings of Saturn) have a disc shape, so we’ve got a few disc-related puns:
- Desk → Disc: As in, “Both sides of the disc” and “Disc jockey” and “Hot discing.”
- Fiscal → Disc-al: As in, “Disc-al requirements” and “Disc-al planning.”
- Risk → Disc: As in, “A calculated disc” and “Disc averse” and “Disc management” and “A discy business” and “Running the disc of…”
Centaur: A centaur is a small solar system. Here are related puns:
- Sent → Centaur: As in, “Heaven centaur” and “Centaur packing.”
- Centre/Center → Centaur: As in, “Journey to the centaur of the Earth” and “Front and centaur” and “Dead centaur” and “A soft, gooey centaur.”
- Century → Centaur-y: As in, “The turn of the centaur-y” and “Sale of the centaur-y.”
- Sent her → Centaur: As in, “They centaur packing.”
Ray → Gamma ray: “Catch some gamma rays” and “Gamma ray of light.” Note: gamma rays are present in space.
Salacia: Salacia is an object in the Kuiper Belt. Here are related puns:
- Solace → Salacia: As in, “Quantum of salacia” and “Take salacia in the knowledge that you did your best.”
- Slice → Salacia: As in, “A salacia of the action” and “Any way you salacia it” and “Fresh to the last salacia” and “Salacia of life.”
Send → Sedna: As in, “Hit sedna” and “Return to sedna” and “Sedna in the dogs!” and “Sedna packing” and “Sedna in reinforcements.” Note: Sedna is a dwarf planet.
Ceres: Ceres is a dwarf planet. Here are some related puns:
- Stairs → Ceres: As in, “At the foot of the ceres” and “Upceres, downstairs.”
- Says → Ceres: As in, “Computer ceres no” and “Ceres who?” and “Simon ceres.”
Pan: Pan is one of Saturn’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Pen → Pan: As in, “Pan and ink” and “Put pan to paper” and “The pan is mightier than the sword.”
- Pin → Pan: As in, “Bright as a new pan” and “Hard to pan down” and “Pan your ears back” and “Pans and needles” and “Pan your hopes on.”
- Can → Pan: As in, “A bank you pan bank on” and “A golden key pan open any door” and “As far as the eye pan see” and “As well as pan be expected” and “All that you pan be” and “Bite off more than you pan chew” and “Pan I help you?”
- Fan → Pan: As in, “Pan the flames” and “I’m a big pan.”
- Man → Pan: As in, “A good pan is hard to find” and “A pan after my own heart.”
- Plan → Pan: As in, “Action pan” and “Business pan” and “Failing to pan is panning to fail” and “Game pan” and “Pan ahead” and “The best laid pans” and “There is no pan B!”
- Pan: These pan-related phrases can double as puns: “Down the pan” and “Flash in the pan” and “What if it doesn’t pan out?”
- Ran → Pan: As in, “My blood pan cold” and “The dish pan away with the spoon.”
- Than → Pan: As in, “Bite off more pan you can chew” and “Blood is thicker pan water” and “Easier said pan done” and “Larger pan life.”
Sin → Sinope: As in, “Miserable as sinope” and “Atone for your sinopes” and “Cardinal sinope” and “A multitude of sinopes.” Note: Sinope is a moon.
Collapse → Calypso: As in, “Spiritual calypso” and “About to calypso.” Note: Calypso is a moon of Saturn.
Greip: Greip is a moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
- Grip → Greip: As in, “Get a greip” and “The greip of death” and “Greipping stuff.”
- Chip → Greip: As in, “A greip on your shoulder” and “Cheap as greips” and “Cash in your greips” and “A greip off the old block” and “Let the greips fall where they may.”
- Ship → Greip: As in, “Abandon greip” and “Don’t give up the greip” and “From chips to greips” and “Jump greip” and “Running a tight greip.”
- Tip → Greip: As in, “In greip top condition” and “On the greip of my tongue” and “The greip of the iceberg” and “Greip someone off” and “Greip the scales.”
Hat → Hati: As in, “At the drop of a hati” and “Hang up your hati” and “Hati in hand” and “Take my hati off to you” and “Keep it under your hati.” Note: Hati is a moon.
Aegir: Aegir is a moon of Saturn. Here are related puns:
- Eager → Aegir: As in, “Aegir beaver.”
- Beggar → Aegir: As in, “Aegir belief” and “Aegirs can’t be choosers.”
Best → Bestla: As in, “All the bestla” and “Be the bestla” and “Bestla friends” and “Bestla of all.” Note: Bestla is a moon.
Sort → Surtur: As in, “Takes all surturs to make a world” and “Out of surturs.” Note: Surtur is a moon.
Kari: Kari is a moon. Here are related puns:
- Carry → Kari: As in, “Fast as your legs could kari him” and “Kari a torch for” and “Can’t kari a tune” and “Kari forward” and “Kari into action.”
- Curry → Kari: As in, “Kari favour with.”
- Bury → Kari: As in, “Kari the hatchet” and “Kari your head in the sand.”
- Care → Kari: As in, “Couldn’t kari less” and “Courtesy and kari” and “Customer kari” and “Handle with kari” and “Intensive kari” and “Like I should kari.”
Loge: Loge is a moon. Here are related puns:
- Log → Loge: As in, “Loge jam” and “Like bumps on a loge” and “Loge off” and “Sleep like a loge” and “Throw another loge on the fire.”
- Leg → Loge: As in, “Break a loge” and “Cost an arm and a loge” and “Give a loge up.”
I → Io: As in, “Io don’t know what’s happening” and “What should Io say?”
Rope → Europa: As in, “At the end of your europa” and “Jump europa” and “Learn the europas.” Note: Europa is one of Jupiter’s moons.
Met his → Metis: As in, “He metis match.” Note: Metis is an asteroid.
Thebe: Thebe (pronounced thee-bee) is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
- The → Thebe: As in, “Above thebe curve” and “Makes thebe heart grow fonder” and “Ace in thebe hole” and “Add fuel to thebe fire” and “After thebe fact.”
- Bee → Thebe: As in, “As busy as a thebe” and “Thebe in your bonnet” and “The birds and thebes (the bees).”
- There be → Thebe: As in, “Thebe monsters here.”
Leda: Leda is a moon of Jupiter. Here are related puns:
- Leader → Leda: As in, “Our fearless leda” and “Leda of the pack” and “A natural born leda” and “Take me to your leda” and “The leda of the free world.”
- Lead → Leda: As in, “In the leda” and “Take the leda” and “Leda a charmed life.”
- Ladder → Leda: As in, “Climb the corporate leda” and “Snakes and ledas.”
- Letter → Leda: As in, “Leda perfect” and “Ledas to the editor” and “The leda of the law” and “To the leda.”
- Lotta → Leda: As in, “A whole leda love.”
Dia: Dia is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Dear → Dia: As in, “After you, my dia” and “Frankly my dia, I don’t give a damn” and “Elementary, my dia Watson” and “Holding on for dia life.”
- Day → Dia: As in, “A dia in the life of” and “An apple a dia” and “All in a dia’s work.”
- Door → Dia: As in, “Behind closed dias” and “A foot in the dia” and “At death’s dia.”
Carpo: Here are some puns on Carpo, one of Jupiter’s moons:
- Carpet → Carpo: As in, “Roll out the red carpo” and “Sweep under the carpo.”
- Corporate → Carpo-rate: As in, “Climb the carpo-rate ladder” and “Carpo-rate responsibility.”
Throne → Thyone: As in, “Ascend to the thyone” and “Next in line to the thyone” and “The power behind the thyone.” Note: Thyone is one of Jupiter’s moons.
Herse: Herse is one of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Purse → Herse: As in, “Holding the herse strings” and “The public herse.”
- Horse → Herse: As in, “Dark herse” and “Eats like a herse” and “Herse-ing around.”
- Curse → Herse: As in, “Better to light a candle than herse the dark.”
- Nurse → Herse: As in, “Herse a grudge.”
- Terse → Herse: As in, “A herse reply.”
- Verse → Herse: As in, “Chapter and herse” and “Master of the uni-herse” and “Re-herse engineering.”
- Worse → Herse: As in, “A turn for the herse” and “A fate herse than death” and “From bad to herse” and “Making matters herse” and “Herse for wear.”
Kill → Kale: As in, “Dressed to kale” and “If looks could kale” and “In for the kale.” Note: Kale is a moon.
Carme: Carme is one of Jupiter’s satellites. Here are some related puns:
- Calm → Carme: As in, ” The carme before the storm” and “Carme down” and “Cool, carme and collected.”
- Come → Carme: As in, “All good things must carme to an end” and “As tough as they carme” and “Carmes but once a year” and “Carme and get it.”
- Arm → Carme: As in, “Carmed and dangerous” and “Carmed intervention” and “Call to carmes” and “Cost a carme and a leg.”
- Charm → Carme: As in, “Carme the birds out of the trees” and “Leading a carmed life” and “Third time’s a carme” and “Works like a carme.”
- Harm → Carme: As in, “First, do no carme” and “Grievous bodily carme” and “No carme done” and “No carme, no foul.”
Kore: Kore is another of Jupiter’s moons. Here are related puns:
- Core → Kore: As in, “Kore competencies” and “Kore technology” and “Kore values” and “Rotten to the kore.”
- Care → Kore: As in, “Couldn’t kore less” and “Customer kore” and “Handle with kore” and “Intensive kore.”
- More → Kore: As in, “One kore time” and “Bite off kore than you can chew” and “Come back for kore” and “Dare for kore” and “Couldn’t agree kore.”
Selling → Cyllene: As in, “Cyllene like hot cakes.” Note: Cyllene is a moon.
Arche: Arche is a moon of Jupiter. Here are related puns:
- Arch → Arche: As in, “Arche enemy.”
- March → Arche: As in, “The arche of time” and” and “Arche-ing orders.”
It’s a no → Isonoe: As in, “Isonoe from me, sorry.” Note: Isonoe is a moon.
Sponde → Spend: As in, “Sponde money like water” and “Sponde the night with” and “Sponde wisely.” Note: Sponde is a moon of Jupiter.
Sirius: Sirius is the brightest star in the sky. Here are related puns:
- Serious → Sirius: As in, “Sirius as a heart attack,” and “Sirius money,” and “You cannot be sirius,” and “But siriusly,” and “Dead sirius.”
- Series → Sirius: As in, “It’s the world sirius!”
- Mysterious → Myst-sirius: As in, “That was a really myst-sirius novel.”
- Siri is → Sirius: As in, “Sirius extremely smart.”
- Syria’s → Sirius: As in, “Sirius in a lot of trouble, and has been for a long time.” (Siriusly though, it’s not a laughing matter and you should definitely look into the Syrian crisis and see what you can do to help)
Crater: These next few puns are about craters, which are features on asteroids and satellites:
- Greater → Crater: As in, “Disease has no crater enemy” and “The whole is crater than the sum of its parts.”
- Cater → Crater: As in, “Crater to you” and “Crater waiter.”
- Later → Crater: As in, “Buy now, pay crater” and “Catch you crater” and “It’s crater than you think” and “Sooner or crater” and “Catch you crater!”

The following section is dedicated to constellations:

Opus → Apus: As in, “Apus dei” and “Magnum apus.”
Crux: Crux is a constellation. Here are related puns:
- Cracks → Crux: As in, “Fall between the crux” and “Paper over the crux” and “A tough nut to crux” and “At the crux of dawn.”
- Ducks → Crux: As in, “Nice weather for crux” and “Like water off a crux back.”
Curve → Corvus: As in, “Ahead of the corvus” and “Corvus ball” and “Learning corvus.”
Calm → Caelum: As in, “After a storm comes a caelum” and “Cool, caelum and collected” and “Keep caelum.”
Grus:
- Crust → Grus: As in, “The upper grus” and “Earn your grus.”
- Grass → Grus: As in, “Exciting as watching grus grow” and “Green as grus” and “Don’t walk on the grus” and “Grus roots.”
- Gross → Grus: As in, “Grus domestic product” and “Grussed out.”
- Us → Grus: As in, “Don’t call grus, we’ll call you.”
In This → Indus: As in, “Indus day and age” and “Indus together.”
Lay → Leo: As in, “Couldn’t leo a glove on me” and “Leo a finger on” and “Leo down roots.”
Loop → Lupus: As in, “In the lupus” and “Thrown for a lupus” and “Keep in the lupus.”
Liar → Lyra: As in, “Don’t make yourself a lyra.”
Normal → Norma: As in, “A norma situation” and “The new norma.”
Lion → Orion: As in, “Brave as orion” and “Orion’s share” and “Orions led by donkeys.”
Purse → Perseus: As in, “Hold the perseus strings” and “The public perseus.”
Picture → Picture: As in, “A pictor paints a thousand words” and “Pretty as a pictor” and “Every pictor tells a story” and “Out of the pictor” and “Pictor perfect.”
Victor → Pictor: As in, “To the pictor goes the spoils!”
Pieces → Pisces: As in, “Bits and pisces” and “Dash to pisces” and “Go to pisces” and “Pick up the pisces.”
Paces → Pisces: As in, “Put through your pisces.”
Tour → Taurus: As in, “World taurus” and “Taurus de force.”
Valour → Vela: As in, “The better part of vela.”
Fella → Vela: As in, “A big vela.”
Ergo → Virgo: As in, “Cogito virgo sum.”

This next section is dedicated to named asteroids:

Best → Vesta: As in, “My vesta friend” and “All the vesta” and “The vesta in class” and “Vesta practice.”
Palace → Pallas: As in, “Memory pallas” and “Sure, in my summer pallas.”
Cybele → Civil: As in, “Cybele rights.”
You know → Juno: As in, “Juno you should apologise” and “Juno what I’m talking about.”
Junior → Juno: As in, “Robert Downey Juno” and “Juno league.”
Heck → Hektor: As in, “For the hecktor of it” and “Oh, hektor.”
Hectare → Hektor: As in, “Fifteen hektors long.”
Sector → Hektor: As in, “Working in the public hektor.”
This → Thisbe: As in, “What fresh hell is thisbe?” and “At thisbe point in time” and “Blow thisbe popsicle stand!”
Frisbee → Thisbe: As in, “Ultimate thisbe.”
Door → Doris: As in, “At deaths’ doris” and “Direct to your doris.”
Dearest → Doris: As in, “Nearest and doris” and “My doris friends.”
Fortune → Fortuna: As in, “Fortuna favours the brave” and “Make your fortuna” and “A small fortuna.”
Tune → Fortuna: As in, “Change your fortuna” and “Carry a fortuna” and “To the fortuna of…”
Them → Themis: As in, “It only encourages themis” and “Let themis eat cake” and “Seen one, seen themis all.”
Palm → Palma: As in, “A face palma moment” and “In the palma of your hand” and “Palma it off onto someone else.”
Calm → Palma: As in, “After a storm comes a palma” and “Palma down” and “Cool, palma and collected.”
Harm → Palma: As in, “First, do no palma” and “Grievous bodily palma” and “Out of palma’s way.”
Pharma → Palma: As in, “Big palma.”

This next section is about named stars:

Century → Centauri: As in, “Sale of the centauri” and “Turn of the centauri.”
Sydney → Cygni: As in, “The cygni opera house.”
In the → Indi: As in, “Ace indi hole” and “Back indi day” and “I’m back indi game!”
On the → Indi: As in, “Easy indi eyes” and “Don’t let the door hit you indi way out.”
Set → Ceti: As in, “All ceti?” and “Game, ceti and match” and “Got your heart ceti on” and “Ready, ceti, go!”
Sit → Ceti: As in, “Ceti it out” and “Ceti on the fence” and “Ceti tight” and “Don’t just ceti there!”
Altar → Altair: As in, “Left at the altair” and “Praying at the altair.”
These → Gliese: As in, “Kids gliese days” and “After all gliese years” and “Gliese things happen.”
Boots → Bootis: As in, “Tough as old bootis” and “Bet your bootis” and “Give someone the bootis.”
Booty → Bootis: As in, “Shake your bootis.”
Are → Arae: As in, “All bets arae off” and “What arae you going to do?”
Are they → Arae: As in, “Arae going together?” and “Arae going to do what I asked?”
Array → Arae: As in, “An arae of goods.”
A ray → Arae: As in, “Arae of light.”

This section is dedicated to galaxies we’ve named:

Bode:
- Bad → Bode: As in, “A bode break” and “A bode quarter of an hour” and “Ain’t half bode” and “Bode intentions” and “Bode blood.”
- Body → Bode-y: As in, “Over my dead bode-y” and “Keep bode-y and soul together.”
- Code → Bode: As in, “Colour bode” and “Crack the bode” and “Dress bode.”
- Load → Bode: As in, “A bode of rubbish” and “A bode off your mind” and “A boded question” and “Get a bode of this!”
- Road → Bode: As in, “Built for the bode ahead” and “Hit the bode” and “Get the show on the bode.”
- Boat → Bode: As in, “Don’t rock the bode” and “In the same bode.”
Wheel → Cartwheel: As in, “Fifth cartwheel” and “Hell on cartwheels” and “Oil the cartwheels” and “New set of cartwheels” and “Reinvent the cartwheel.”
Hug → Hoag: As in, “Group hoag” and “Hoag it out.”
Vogue → Hoag: As in, “In hoag.”
Mice:
- Nice → Mice: As in, “That’ll do micely” and “Have a mice day!” and “Naughty but mice” and “Mice and easy” and “Make mice” and “Wouldn’t it be mice?”
- Mess → Mice: As in, “Don’t mice with me” and “A hot mice” and “We don’t mice around” and “Another fine mice you’ve gotten me into.”
- Ice → Mice: As in, “Cold as mice” and “Break the mice” and “Mice, mice baby.”
- Price → Mice: As in, “Asking mice” and “At a mice to suit you” and “Closing mice” and “Half mice.”
- Slice → Mice: As in, “Any way you mice it” and “Mice of life” and “A mice of the action” and “Fresh to the last mice.”
- Spice → Mice: As in, “Mice things up” and “The mice of life.”
- Twice → Mice: As in, “Once or mice” and “Don’t think mice” and “Once bitten, mice shy.”
- Vice → Mice: As in, “Den of mice” and “Mice versa.”
Mail → Mayall: As in, “Express mayall” and “Junk mayall” and “It’s in the mayall.”
Pin → Pinwheel: As in, “Bright as a new pinwheel” and “Hard to pinwheel down” and “Pinwheel your hopes on” and “Pinwheels and needles.”
Wheel → Pinwheel: As in, “Oil the pinwheels” and “Hell on pinwheels.”
Pool → Whirlpool: As in, “Big fish in a small whirlpool.”

Here are some puns dedicated to named centaurs:

Finer → Beiner: As in, “The beiner things in life” and “The beiner points of…”
Necessary → Nessus-ary: As in, “Is this nessus-ary?” and “A nessus-ary evil.” Note: These are puns on 7066 Nessus.

These next few puns are about exoplanets:

Spe:
- Be → Spe: As in, “Spe all ears” and “I’ll just spe in and out” and “Spe as it may.”
- Spy → Spe: As in, “I spe with my little eye” and “The spe who loved me.”
- Pea → Spe: As in, “Two spes in a pod.”
Orbit → Orbitar: As in, “Out of my orbitar.”
Bra → Brahe: As in, “Burn your brahe” and “Training brahe.”
Dragon → Dagon: As in, “Chase the dagon” and “Feed the dagon.”
Saffar → Suffer: As in, “Long saffaring” and “Make them saffar.”
Same → Samh: As in, “By the samh token” and “Comes to the samh thing” and “Cut from the samh cloth” and “In the samh vein.”
Some → Samh: As in, “And then samh” and “Buy samh time” and “Cut me samh slack.”
Sum → Samh: As in, “Cogito ergo samh” and “Greater than the samh of its parts.”

Here are some puns about named nebulas:

Dumbbell:
- Crumble → Dumbbell: As in, “That’s the way the cookie dumbbells.”
- Bell → Dumbbell: As in, “Dumbbells and whistles” and “For whom the dumbbell tolls” and “Sound as a dumbbell.”
- Humble → Dumbbell: As in, “Eat dumbbell pie.”
- Rumble → Dumbbell: As in, “Get ready to dumbbell.”
- Tumble → Dumbbell: As in, “Rough and dumbbell” and “Take a dumbbell on.”
Foot → Footprint: As in, “A footprint in both camps” and “Bound hand and footprint” and “Fleet of footprint.”
Bubble → Soap Bubble: As in, “Soap bubble and squeak” and “Burst your soap bubble” and “Prick your soap bubble.”
Skull:
- Skill → Skull: As in, “Social skulls” and “Hidden skulls.”
- Dull → Skull: As in, “All work and no play makes Jack a skull boy” and “Skull as ditchwater” and “Never skull moment.”
- Lull → Skull: As in, “A skull in the conversation” and “Skulled into a false sense of security.”
- Mull → Skull: As in, “Skulling things over.”
- Null → Skull: As in, “Skull and void.”
Flash → Blue Flash: As in, “Quick as a blue flash” and “Blue flash in the pan” and “In a blue flash.”
Bug:
- Bag → Bug: As in, “Bug a bargain” and “Bug of tricks” and “Dirt bug.”
- Beg → Bug: As in, “Bug a favour” and “Bug pardon” and “Bug the question” and “Bug to differ” and “Bug, borrow or steal” and “Sit up and bug.”
- Big → Bug: As in, “A bug ask” and “Bug shot.”
- Plug → Bug: As in, “Bug and play” and “Pull the bug.”
- Shrug → Bug: As in, “Bug your shoulders” and “Bug it off.”
Saturn:
- Satin → Saturn: As in, “Saturn pillowcases.”
- Sudden → Saturn: As in, “All of a saturn” and “A saturn stop.”
- Pattern → Saturn: As in, “All part of life’s rich saturn.”
Ray → Stingray: As in, “Catch some stingrays” and “Stingray of light.”
Ant:
- Aunt → Ant: As in, “Agony ant” and “My giddy ant.”
- Can’t → Ant: As in, “An offer you ant refuse” and “Ant get enough” and “I ant wait.”
- Grant → Ant: As in, “Take for anted” and “Ant no quarter.”
- Pants → Ant: As in, “Beat the ants of” and “Bore the ants off someone” and “By the seat of your ants” and “Fancy ants.”

This next section is about stellar streams:

Hell → Helmi: As in, “All helmi broke loose” and “Beat the helmi out of” and “A cold day in helmi.”
Bootes:
- Boots → Bootes: As in, “Tough as old bootes” and “Bet your bootes” and “Hang up your bootes” and “Too big for your bootes.”
- Bets → Bootes: As in, “All bootes are off” and “Hedge your bootes” and “Place your bootes.”
- Bits → Bootes: As in, “Bootes and bobs” and “Bootes and pieces” and “Bootes per second” and “Thrilled to bootes.”
- Roots → Bootes: As in, “Grass bootes” and “Lay down bootes” and “The bootes of all evil.”
- Shoots → Bootes: As in, “Eats, bootes and leaves” and “The green bootes of change.”
- Suits → Bootes: As in, “Bootes you down to a tee
  and “Bootes you down to the ground.”

This final section is about famous or influential people:

Stephen Hawking:
- Even → Stephen: As in, “Break stephen” and “Don’t get mad, get stephen” and “A stephen chance.”
- Walking → Hawking: As in, “Keep hawking” and “Sleep hawking” and “Hawking on sunshine” and “Hawking on the moon.”
Neil Armstrong:
- Nail → Neil: As in, “Difficult as neiling jelly to a tree” and “Hard as neils” and “Bed of neils” and “Fight tooth and neil.”
- Nil → Neil: As in, “We scored neil.”
- Deal → Neil: As in, “A big neil” and “Neil breaker” and “Neil or no neil” and “A done neil” and “Seal the neil.”
- Eel → Neil: As in, “Slippery as a neil” and “Brought to neil” and “Under the neil of.”
- Feel → Neil: As in, “Neil a bit put out” and “Neil good factor” and “Neil the pinch” and “Neiling blue” and “A gut neiling.”
- Heel → Neil: As in, “Achilles’ neil” and “Cool your neils” and “Dig your neils in” and “Head over neils in love” and “Kick up your neils” and “Turn on your neil.”
- Meal → Neil: As in, “Make a neil of it” and “Neil ticket” and “A square neil.”
- Real → Neil: As in, “All I neilly want to do” and “Come home to a neil fire” and “Get neil” and “It’s the neil thing” and “Keep it neil.”
- Seal → Neil: As in, “My lips are neiled” and “Neil of approval” and “Neil the deal” and “Neiled with a loving kiss” and “Signed and neiled.”
- She’ll → Neil: As in, “Neil be right” and “Neil never figure it out.”
- Steal → Neil: As in, “Beg, borrow or neil” and “It’s a neil!” and “Neil a glance” and “Neil someone’s thunder” and “Neil the show.”
- Steel → Neil: As in, “Nerves of neil” and “Neil yourself.”
- Wheel → Neil: As in, “Asleep at the neil” and “Hell on neils” and “Reinvent the neil” and “Set of neils” and “The neil has come full circle.”
- Strong → Armstrong: As in, “Only as armstrong as its weakest link” and “Still going armstrong” and “The armstrong, silent type.”
Buzz Aldrin:
- Boss → Buzz: As in, “Buzz about” and “Show them who’s buzz” and “The buzz level.”
- Buzz: “Buzz me in” and “Buzz off” and “Buzzing with excitement.”
- Does → Buzz: As in, “Buzz you good” and “Buzz what it says on the tin” and “Buzz the trick” and “Easy buzz it” and “Nice and easy buzz it.”
Yuri Gagarin:
- Year → Yuri: As in, “All yuri round” and “Advanced in yuris” and “Comes but once a yuri” and “Getting on in yuris” and “Happy new yuri.”
- Yours → Yuri: As in, “Bigger than yuris” and “Yuris truly” and “Yuris faithfully.”
- Jury → Yuri: As in, “The yuri is out.”
Hermann Oberth:
- Hermann → Sermon: As in, “Deliver a hermann.”
- Harming → Hermann: “These attitudes are hermann society.”
- Birth → Oberth: As in, “The oberth of a nation” and “Separated at oberth” and “Give oberth to.”
- Berth → Oberth: As in, “Give someone a wide oberth.”
Sally Ride:
- Silly → Sally: As in, “Ask a sally question” and “Sally billy” and “Sally season.”
- Alley → Sally: As in, “Sally cat” and “Right up your sally.”
- Rally → Sally: As in, “Sally round.”
- Valley → Sally: As in, “Silicon sally” and “Sally of death.”
- Right → Ride: As in, “A move in the ride direction” and “All the ride moves” and “Bang to rides” and “Bragging rides.”
- Ride → Ride: As in, “Ride or die” and “Just along for the ride” and “Let it ride” and “Ride like the wind.”
- Died → Ride: As in, “Ride and gone to heaven” and “Cross my heart and hope to ride.”
- Dried → Ride: As in, “Cut and ride.”
- Guide → Ride: As in, “Let your conscience be your ride” and “The hitchhiker’s ride to the galaxy.”
- Hide → Ride: As in, “Ride and seek” and “Ride from the light” and “You can run but you can’t ride.”
- Pride → Ride: As in, “Bursting with ride” and “My ride and joy” and “Ride comes before a fall.”
- Side → Ride: As in, “A walk on the wild ride” and “Always look on the bright ride of life” and “Be on the safe ride” and “Both rides of the desk” and “Err on the ride of caution.”
- Stride → Ride: As in, “Get into your ride” and “Making giant rides” and “Take it in your ride.”
- Tide → Ride: As in, “A changing ride” and “Stem the ride” and “The ride is turning.”
- Tried → Ride: As in, “Don’t knock it til you’ve ride it” and “Ride and tested” and “Ride and true.”
- Wide → Ride: As in, “Open ride” and “Ride open spaces” and “The world ride web.”
  
  Space-Related Words
  
  To help you come up with your own space puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

General: space, planet, moon, solar system, sun, star, big bang, galaxy, universe, solar, lunar, astronaut, spaceship, NASA, cosmos, cosmic, orbit, rocket, asteroid, comet, meteor, meteorite, eclipse, astronomy, black hole, satellite, shuttle, light, UFO, alien, gas, gravity, gas giant, ice giant, belt, hubble, space station, constellation, launch, vacuum, crater, nova, supernova, planetoid, quantum, area 51, matter, science, world, celestial, plasma, hydrogen, helium, radiation, magnetic field, dust, rays, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, ozone, dark matter, dark energy, karman line, flight, pressure, atmosphere, expansion, void, nebula, light year, galactic, corona, geospace, aurora, deep space, heliosphere, proton, interstellar, local bubble, telescope, binoculars, space probe, research, space race, LEO (low earth orbit), extraterrestrial, cosmonaut, sputnik, apollo, dwarf, venera 7, salyut 1, ISS (international space station),explorer 1, interplanetary, orbiter, voyager, rings, arcs, kuiper belt, mesoplanet, fusor, space suit, oxygen, speed of light, physics, stellar, cassini division, encke gap, keeler gap, roche division, herschel, kraken mare, andromeda, macrocosm, microcosm, atom, neutron, exoplanet, parsec, quasar, jovian, halo, chasma, nibiru, sublunary, gas giant, velocity, orb, wax, wane, energy, red dwarf, white dwarf, terrestrial, disc, belt, centaur, elara, sinope, carme, leda, kale, dia, gamma ray

Planets: mercury, mars, earth, venus, jupiter, neptune, uranus, saturn

Dwarf planets: pluto, haumea, makemake, eris, orcus, salacia, quaoar, sedna, ceres

Moons: titan, phobos, deimos, charon, triton, rhea, ganymede, enceladus, hyperion, phoebe, dione, prometheus, telesto, mimas, pandora, janus, tethys, iapetus, pan, daphnis, atlas, methone, anthe, pallene, tarvos, calypso, helene, paaliaq, skathi, skoll, tarqeq, greip, narvi, hati, aegir, bestla, fenrir, surtur, kari, ymir, loge, io, europa, callisto, metis, thebe, leda, dia, carpo, mneme, thyone, ananke, herse, aitne, kale, chaldene, carme, kore, cyllene, arche, isonoe, sinope, sponde, nereid

Constellations: big dipper, sirius, antila, apus, aquila, ara, aries, auriga, caelum, cancer, canis, carina, cepheus, cetus, circinus, columba, corvus, crater, crux, cygnus, dorado, draco, fornax, gemini, grus, hydra, hydrus, indus, lacerta, leo, lepus, libra, lupus, lynx, lyra, mensa, musca, norma, octans, orion, pavo, pegasus, perseus, phoenix, pictor, pisces, puppis, pyxis, sagitta, scorpius, sculptor, scutum, serpens, sextans, taurus, tucana, ursa, vela, virgo, volans

Asteroids: vesta, pallas, hygiea, davida, sylvia, cybele, juno, hektor, thisbe, doris, ursula, iris, fortuna, egeria, themis, aurora, alauda, palma, hermione, , nemesis, hebe, psyche, daphne

Comets: halley’s, caesar’s, donati’s, coggia’s, lovejoy, mcnaught, rest

Stars: centauri, eridani, cygni, indi, ceti, altair, gliese, draconis, pavonis, bootis, hydri, piscium, orionis, herculis, arae

Galaxies: antennae, black eye, bode’s, butterfly, cartwheel, cigar, circinus, hoag’s, mice, mayall’s, pinwheel, sombrero, funslower, tadpole, whirlpool

Meteor showers: gamma normids, lyrids, june bootids, perseids, geminids, ursids

Centaurs: amycus, bienor, nessus, pholus, chiron

Exoplanets: spe, arion, arkas, orbitar, brahe, janssen, harriot, amateru, dagon, tadmor, hypatia, sancho, saffar, samh

Nebula: glowing eye, dandelion puffball, bow-tie, ghost of jupiter, blinking, dumbbell, ring, eskimo, cat’s eye, little ghost, medusa, helix, pw;. twin jet, butterfly, footprint, lemon slice, soap bubble, skull, oyster, blue flash, fetus, blue snowball, soccer ball, red spider, bug, butterfly, saturn, eight-burst, retina, spirograph, stingray, ant, shapley, fleming, southern owl, robin’s egg, cleopatra’s eye, box, phantom streak, little gem, eye of sauron

Stellar streams: arcturus, magellanic, helmi, palomar, virgo, orphan, acheron, bootes, lethe, styx, lamost

Famous people: stephen hawking, neil armstrong, buzz aldrin, yuri gagarin, galileo, robert goddard, hermann oberth, reinhold tiling, valentina tereshkova, sally ride

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Candle Puns

Welcome to the Punpedia entry on candle puns!🕯🔥✨

Even though candles have largely been replaced by modern lightbulbs and torches, they’re still culturally important to us and remain a part of our lives, helping us celebrate holidays and milestones.

Whether you’re ruining the soft-lit ambience of your Valentine’s date, celebrating Hanukkah or cracking jokes about a loved one’s age, we hope you find the perfect pun for your needs in this list.

While this list is as comprehensive and thorough as we could make it, it is specific to candles. If you’re after related puns, we do have fire puns and birthday puns on the way.

Candle Puns List

Each item in this list describes a pun, or a set of puns which can be made by applying a rule. If you know of any puns about candles that we’re missing, please let us know in the comments at the end of this page! Without further ado, here’s our list of candle puns:

Scandal → Candle: As in, “A red-hot candle” and “Candle sheet.”
Handle → Candle: As in, “Fly off the candle” and “Get a candle on” and “Candle with care” and “How much can you candle?” and “Too hot to candle.”
Kendall Jenner → Candle Jenner
Second → Secandle: As in, “On secandle thought” and “Just one secandle” and “Play secandle fiddle to” and “Secandle best” and “Secandle nature” and “Secandle to none” and “Get a secandle opinion” and “And secandley…”
Whack → Wax: As in, “Out of wax” and “Wax-a-mole.”
Wax: These wax-related phrases can serve as general candle puns: “Wax and wane” and Wax lyrical” and “Waxing poetic.” Note: to wax poetic or lyrical is to speak at unecessary length.
Quick → Wick: As in, “Wick as a flash” and “Cut to the wick” and “Fancy a wickie?” and “Get rich wick” and “In wick succession” and “Kiss me wick” and “Make a wick buck” and “Lightning-wick” and “Wick on the uptake” and “Wick as a whip.”
Whack → Wick: As in, “Out of wick” and “A wicky situation.”
Weak → Wick: As in, “Wick at the knees” and “A chain is only as strong as its wickest link.”
Week → Wick: As in, “A wick is a long time in politics” and “Knock into the middle of next wick” and “A wick from next Tuesday” and “Flavour of the wick” and “A wickly event.”
Wake → Wick: As in, “Half awick” and “A rude awickening” and “Wick up and smell the coffee” and “Wick-up call” and “Loud enough to wick the dead” and “Wick up on the wrong side of the bed” and “Wide awick.”
Which → Wick: As in, “Any wick way” and “Don’t know wick way to look” and “Don’t know wick way is up” and “See wick way the cat jumps” and “Wickever you like” and “Wick is wick?”
Wik* → Wick*: If a word starts with a “wik” sound, then we can replace it with “wick” to make some silly candle puns. As in, wickipedia (wikipedia) and wicktionary (wiktionary).
*wick*: Simply emphasize the “wick” in these words: wicked, wicket, wickedness.
Lid → Lit: As in, “Flip your lit” and “Blow the lit off” and “Keep a lit on it.”
Let → Lit: As in, “Lit there be light” and “Don’t lit the sun go down on me” and “Just lit it lie” and “Lit it bleed” and “Lit bygones be bygones” and “Lit your hair down” and “Lit her rip” and “Lit it all hang out” and “Lit loose” and “Lit me count the ways” and “Lit nature take its course” and “Lit’s get physical” and “A room to lit.”
*lat* → *lit*: We can swap the “lat” sound in words with “lit” to make joking references to lit candles. As in, “Articulit yourself clearly” and “Emulit their work” and “Colliteral damage” and “A volitile situation.”
*let* → *lit*: As in, “Chain litter” and “Add some littuce” and “I need an outlit” and “Run the gauntlit” and “Bite the bullit.” Other words you could use: pallit (pallet), violit (violet), millit (millet), tablit (tablet), complit (complete), obsolit (obsolete).
*lid* → *lit*: As in, “A solit argument” and “Your identity is valit” and “Pallit complexion” and “Don’t treat them like invalits” and “Squalit conditions” and “Holitay season” and “Standing in solitarity” and “Payment valitated.”
*lit*: Emphasise the “lit” in these words: “Little by little” and “Read the literature” and “Not literally” and “A literal mess” and “Banana split.” Other words that could be used: litter, litigation, sunlit, moonlit, facilitate, facility, quality, humility, liability, politics, reality and accountability.
Let → Light: As in, “Light them down gently” and “Light it be” and “Light bygones be bygones” and “Light it all hang out” and “Light loose” and “Light me be brief” and “Light me count the ways” and “Light me make one thing perfectly clear” and “Light nature take its course.”
*lite → *light: As in, “Polight conversation” and “An impolight gesture” and “Satellight tv” and “Wealthy socialights.”
*lit* → *light*: As in, “Secret facilighty” and “Facilightate conversation” and “Qualighty control” and “You’re a liabilighty!” and “Polightics is relevant to everyone.” Other words that could work: realighty (reality), accountabilighty (accountability) and humilighty (humility).
Late → Light: As in, “Better light than never” and “Catch you lighter” and “Fashionably light” and “Read any good books lightly?” and “It’s never too light to learn” and “A light bloomer” and “Light in the day” and “Light in the game” and “Running light” and “Sooner or lighter” and “Too little, too light.”
*lat* → *light*: As in, “Well-articulighted” and “Game emulightor” and “Collighteral damage.”
*lit* → *light*: As in, “In the lighterature” and “Not lighterally” and “A lighterary mind” and “Lightany of problems” and “A lighteral disaster.”
Light: These light-related phrases can double as candle puns: “Blinded by the light” and “Brought to light” and “Come on baby, light my fire” and “First light” and “Get of lightly” and “Go out like a light” and “Guiding light” and “Half light” and “In light of” and “Leading light” and “Light a fire under” and “Light at the end of the tunnel” and “Light entertainment” and “Light hearted” and “Lighten up!”
Taper: Tapers are small wax candles. Refer to them in your wordplay with these puns and phrases:
- Tape → Taper: As in, “Cut through the red taper” and “This taper will self-destruct.”
- Type → Taper: As in, “Not my taper” and “The strong, silent taper.”
- Tap → Taper: As in, “A light taper at the door” and “Tapering (tapping) your foot.”
- Paper → Taper: As in, “Read the newstaper” and “Couldn’t find your way out of a taper bag” and “Looks good on taper” and “Taper thin” and “Taper trail” and “Put pen to taper.”
Fame → Flame: As in, “Claim to flame” and “Flame at last” and “Fifteen minutes of flame” and “Hall of flame.”
Famous → Flameous: As in, “Almost flameous” and “Flameous last words.”
Aim → Flame: As in, “We flame to please” and “Flame high” and “Take flame.”
Blame → Flame: As in, “Flame game” and “Don’t flame the messenger.”
*fam* → *flame*: As in, “Flame-ily matters” and “40 hour flame-ine” and “Sued for deflame-ation.”
Flam* → Flame*: Flameboyant (flamboyant) and flameingo (flamingo).
*phem* → *flame*: Blasflamey (blasphemy) and euflame-ism (euphemism).
Much → Match: As in, “Well that’s a bit match” and “How match can you handle?” and “I don’t know match about it, but” and “You’ve seen too match” and “Missed it by that match” and “Match obliged” and “There’s so match more” and “Thank you very match” and “Too match information” and “Too match of a good thing” and “Too match, too soon” and “Well so match for that.”
Mitchell → Matchell
Michaelangelo → Matchelangelo
Maj* → Match*: As in, “Matchority (majority) rule” and “A matchestic display” and “Your matchesty.”
Mag* → Match*: matchic (magic) and matchistrate (magistrate).
*mat* → *match*: As in, “In the wrong formatch” and “Immatchure arguments” and “Leave it by the doormatch.” Other words that could work: diplomatch (diplomat), matchurity (maturity), prematchure (premature), matchure (mature) and laundromatch (laundromat).
Mutual → Matchual: As in, “The feeling is matchual” and “Matchual attraction” and “Matchual admiration” and “Matchually assured destruction.”
Match: These match-related phrases are general enough to double as candle puns: “A match made in heaven” and “Game, set, match.” and “Meet your match” and “Mix and match” and “More than a match for” and “A perfect match.”
Delight → Tealight: As in, “Afternoon tealight” and “Earthly tealights” and “Turkish tealight” and “My heart’s tealight” and “Take tealight in.”
*fair → *fire: As in, “Affire of the heart” and “All’s fire in love and war” and “By fire means or foul.”
Far → Fire: As in, “A step too fire” and “As fire as it goes” and “As fire as the eyes can see” and “A fire cry from” and “Few and fire between” and “Over the hills and fire away” and “So fire, so good” and “As fire as I know” and “I wouldn’t go so fire as to..”
*far* → *fire*: As in, “a nefireious (nefarious) villain” and “Child welfire” and “Bid you firewell” and “A fireaway look in your eyes.”
*fer* → *fire*: As in, “A fireocious battle” and “My final offire.” Other words that could work: defire (defer), confire (confer), transfire (transfer), buffire (buffer), suffire (suffer), refire-ence (reference), diffire-ent (different) and infire-ence (inference).
*fir* → *fire*: firest (first), firesthand (firsthand), affiremation (affirmation) and affiremative (affirmative).
*for* → *fire*: As in, “Weather firecast” and “For the fireseeable future” and “And therefire…” and “A grim perfiremance.” Other words that could work: perfirem (perform), infiremation (information), firest (forest), afirementioned (aforementioned), firensic (forensic) and befire (before).
*phar* → *fire*: firemacy (pharmacy), firemaceutical (pharmaceutical) and fireaoh (pharaoh).
*pher* → *fire*: As in, “Perifire-al vision” and “Romantic atmosfire” and “Barefoot philosofire” and “Professional photografire.” Other words that could work: fireomone (pheromone), cifire (cipher), decifire (decipher), parafirenalia (paraphernalia), perifirey (periphery) and hemisfire (hemisphere).
Sapphire → Safire
*fair* → *fire*: As in, “Airy firey” and “Fireytale ending” and “Firely judged” and “In all fireness” and “Unfire choices” and “All the fun at the funfire.”
Chauffeur → Chauffire
*fier → *fire: firece (fierce), modifire (modifier), amplifire (amplifier), identifire (identifier), qualifire (qualifier), pacifire (pacifier) and emulsifire (emulsifier). Note: an emulsifier is a substance that keeps different substances together.
Later → Lighter: As in, “Catch you lighter” and “It’s lighter than you think” and “Sooner or lighter” and “We’ll continue this lighter” and “Cross that bridge lighter.”
Litre → Lighter
*lator → *lighter: As in, translighter (translator), escalighter (escalator), manipulighter (manipulator), calculighter (calculator), regulighter (regulator) and percolighter (percolator).
Designate → Designite: As in, “Designited driver.”
Bite → Bright: As in, “A bright to eat” and “Ankle brighter” and “Another one brights the dust” and “Bright back” and “Bright the bullet” and “Bright your hand off” and “Bright your tongue.”
*ban* → *burn*: As in, “Suburburn living” and “Urburn sprawl” and “Adjust your turburn” and “Left aburndoned” and “Burnana ice cream.”
*ben* → *burn*: As in, “For your burnefit” and “Burnevolent ruler” and “Burnign tumour.” Other words that could work: burnefactor (benefactor), burnevolence (benevolence) and burneficial (beneficial). Notes: if something is benign, then it isn’t harmful. If something is benevolent or beneficial, then it for good or has good intentions.
*bon* → *burn*: As in, “Burn voyage” and “Burn appetit.” Other words that could work: burnafide (bonafide), burnanza (bonanza), ribburn (ribbon), carburn (carbon) and bourburn (bourbon).
*bun* → *burn*: As in, “Burndle of joy” and “Thanks a burnch” and “Down in the burnkers.” Other words you could use: aburndance (abundance), aburndant (abundant), burnny (bunny) and burngalow (bungalow). Note: if something is in abundance, then there’s plenty of it; more than required.
Barn* → Burn*: burnacle (barnacle) and burnyard (barnyard).
Hibernate → Hiburnate
Borneo → Burneo
*born → *burn: As in, “Stubburn as a mule” and “Newburn baby” and “I feel reburn” and “My firstburn child.”
Blow: The next few puns and phrases will be centred around the word “blow” as a reference to blowing out candles:
- Below → Blow: As in, “Blow par” and “Blow the belt” and “Blow your breath” and “Blow average” and “Blow the surface” and “Hit blow the belt.”
- Blouse → Blowse
- Bloat* → Blowt*: As in, “A blowted paragraph” and “Blowting stomach.”
Scented: Since scented candles are extremely popular, we’ve included scent-related puns and phrases for you:
- Sent → Scent: As in, “Heaven scent” and “Scent packing” and “Scent mixed messages.”
- Send → Scent: As in, “Hit scent” and “Return to scenter” and “Scent packing” and “Scenting shivers down your spine” and “Scent word.”
- Sense → Scents: As in, “Come to your scent-ses” and “Common scents” and “A keen scents of smell” and “Making scents of” and “More money than scents” and “No nonscents” and “Makes perfect scents” and “Sheer nonscents” and “A sixth scents” and “Not in that scents” and “Yes, in a scents” and “A false scents of security.”
- Cents → Scents: As in, “Two scents worth” and “Dollars and scents.”
- *sant* → *scent*: As in, “Incesscent noise” and “Pleascent conversation” and “Peascent blouse” and “Cogniscent of the fact” and “An unpleascent feeling.” Note: to be cognisant of something is to be aware of it.
- *sent* → *scent*: As in, “An unfinished scentence” and “Scentient beings” and “Loving scentiments.” Other words that could be used: scentimental (sentimental), scentience (sentience), scentry (sentry), prescent (present), conscent (consent), represcent (represent), disscent (dissent), ascent, abscent (absent), misreprescent (misrepresent), esscential (essential) and quintesscential (quintessential).
- *sint* → *scent*: As in, discentegrate (disintegrate), discenterested (disinterested), miscenterpret (misinterpret) and discentegration (disintegration).
- *cent* → *scent*: As in, “Front and scentre” and “A scentral apartment” and “Best of the scentury” and “A magnifiscent show.” Other words that could work: scentipede (centipede), scentaur (centaur), complascent (complacent), acscent (accent), adjascent (adjacent), descent (decent), innoscent (innocent), ecscentric (eccentric) and inscentive (incentive).
- Scintillate → Scentillate: (note: if something is scintillating , then it’s shining or twinkling.)
- *sand* → *scent*: As in, “Knuckle scentwich” and “Using someone as a scentbag” and “Scentbox game” and “Summer scentdals.” Other words that could work: thouscent (thousand), amperscent (ampersand) and quickscent (quicksand).
- *send* → *scent*: As in, “Return to scenter” and “Rescent the email” and “An absolute godscent.”
- *cend* → *scent*: As in, “A condescenting tone” and “Inscentiary topics” and “Bringing to a crescento” and “Ascent to the next level.” Other words that could work: transcent (transcend), descent (descend), condescent (condescend), transcent-dent (transcendent) and descent-dant (descendant).
- Cinderella → Scenterella
- Saint → Scent: As in, “The patience of a scent” and “The patron scent of..”
Melt: We’ve included some melt-related phrases and puns so you can refer to the melting nature of candle wax in your wordplay:
- *met* → *melt*: As in, “A mixed meltaphor” and “Melticulous attention to detail” and “My heart plummelted” and “Wear your helmelt” and “Shifted paramelters” and “Geomeltry class.”
- *mit* → *melt*: As in, “Commeltment (commitment) issues” and “Only intermeltently (intermittently) and “Death by commelttee.”
- Maltreatment → Meltreatment
- *mult* → *melt*: meltiple (multiple), meltifaceted (multifaceted), meltimedia (multimedia), melticultural (multicultural), simeltaneously (simultaneously), tumeltuous (tumultuous) and meltitude (multitude). Note: if something is tumultuous, then it’s chaotic and disorderly.
Flagrant → Fragrant: As in, “A fragrant disregard for the rules” and “Fragrant abuse of power.”
Hate → Heat: As in, “Heat mail” and “Love-heat relationship” and “Heat to say it, but…” and “Heaters gonna heat.”
Height → Heat: As in, “Reaching new heats” and “The heat of fashion.”
Hit → Heat: As in, “Hard heatting” and “Heavy heatter” and “Heat the road” and “Heat and miss” and “Heat it off” and “Heat it out of the park” and “On someone’s heat list” and “Heat rock bottom” and “Heat the brakes” and “Heat the ground running” and “Heat the hay” and “Heat the jackpot” and “Heat the nail on the head.”
Hat* → Heat*: As in, “Down the heatch” and “An immense heatred for” and “Sharpen the heatchet.”
*het* → *heat*: heaterosexual (heterosexual), epitheat (epithet), ratcheat (ratchet) and propheat (prophet).
*hit* → *heat*: archeatect (architect), archeatecture (architecture) and heatman (hitman).
Tahiti → Taheati
Haiti → Heati
Smack → Smoke: As in, “Smoke dab in the middle” and “Feeling gobsmoked” and “An epic smokedown” and “A smoke on the wrist.”
*smic → *smoke: As in, cosmoke (cosmic), seismoke (seismic), cataclysmoke (cataclysmic), orgasmoke (orgasmic) and miasmoke (orgasmic).
Soy: Soy candles are a fairly new and popular environmentally friendly (and vegan!) alternative to traditional candle waxes (paraffin, tallow and beeswax). Add soy candles into your repertoire with these soy-related phrases and puns:
- Say → Soy: As in, “As the soying goes” and “Before you could soy anything” and “Computer soys no” and “Do as I soy, not as I do” and “Does exactly what it soys on the tin” and “Have a soy” and “My final soy” and “I’m hearing what you soy” and “Just soy the word” and “Needless to soy” and “Never soy never” and “Soy a few words” and “Soy goodnight” and “Soy it, don’t spray it” and “Soy what you mean” and “As I was soying” and “If I do soy so myself” and “Soy again?” and “To soy nothing of” and “To soy the least.”
- So → Soy: As in, “Soy on and soy forth” and “I wouldn’t go soy far as to…” and “How soy?” and “If I do say soy myself” and “Not soy fast!” and “Soy be it” and “Soy long as” and “Soy much for” and “Soy there.”
- *sey* → *soy*: As in, “An epic odyssoy” and “Hit the bullsoy.”
- *ser* → *soy*: As in, “Customer soyvice” and “A soyrendipitous (serendipitous) event” and “Things are getting soyrious” and “Filled with soyrenity.” Note: if something is serendipitous, then it’s fortunate or lucky.
- Ceylon (tea) → Soylon
- *sor* → *soy*: As in, “Chaos and disoyder” and “Business consoytium (consortium).” Note: a consortium is a joint venture between businesses or organisations.
- *sur* → *soy*: As in, “A soyreal (surreal) situation” and “Bring to the soyface” and “Plastic soygery.”
- Thesaurus → Thesoyrus
- *seur* → *soy*: As in, “Wine coinnossoy (coinnosseur)” and “Artist psoydonym.”
- *soc* → *soy*: As in, “Modern soyciety” and “Soycial media” and “A soyciable mood” and “Shame by assoyciation.” Other words you could use: assoyciated (associated), assoyciate (associate), soycket (socket), soyciopath (sociopath) and soycialism (socialism).
- *sig* → *soy*: As in, “By desoyn (design)” and “An insoytful observation” and “A massive oversoyt (oversight)” and “Second soyt (sight)” and “Desoygnated (designated) driver.”
- *sy* → *soy*: As in, “Common courtesoy” and “Easoy does it” and “Clumsoy oaf” and “In perfect soymmetry” and “Maply soyrup” and “Filled with jealousoy.” Other words that could work: daisoy (daisy), heresoy (heresy), idiosyncrasoy (idiosyncrasy), soystem (system), soyndrome (syndrome), soynonym (synonym), soynergy (synergy), psoychology (psychology), soyllabus (syllabus), soymphony (symphony), soyringe (syringe), fantasoy (fantasy), ecstasoy (ecstasy), asoylum (asylum), hypocrisoy (hypocrisy), flimsoy (flimsy), whimsoy (whimsy), unsoympathetic (unsympathetic), epilepsoy (epilepsy), autopsoy (autopsy), biopsoy (biospy) and controversoy (controversy).
- *so* → *soy*: espressoy (espresso), virtuosoy (virtuoso), esoyteric (esoteric), philosoyphy (philosophy), resoylution (resolution), soylution (solution), soyphisticated (sophisticated) and soydium (sodium).
Palm: We can make joking references to palm wax with the following puns and phrases (note that the palm oil industry is a very controversial one):
- Balm → Palm: As in, “Strawberry-flavoured lip palm.”
- Calm → Palm: As in, “Palm down” and “A palming agent” and “Palm waters.”
- *pam* → *palm*: As in, “Activitst palmphlets” and “A bit of love and palmpering” and “Feeling palmpered” and “Dopalmine levels.”
- *pom* → *palm*: As in, “A palmpous attitude” and “Palmegranate flavoured” and “Hair palmade” and “Palmeolo (pomelo) tree” and “Anthropalmorphic characters.” Note: pomade is a type of styling gel/paste.
- *pum* → *palm*: As in, “Palmpkin pie” and “Under the palmp” and “Palmping for information” and “Palmice stone” and “Palmpernickel bread.”
- *bam* → *palm*: As in, “Palmboo forest” and “You’ve been palmboozled!”
- *bom* → *palm*: As in, “An apalmination of nature” and “The apalminable snowman.”
- Bumblebee → Palmblebee
Berry → Bayberry: As in, “Brown as a bayberry” and “Bayberry flavoured.” Note: bayberry wax is a vegetable wax that’s used in candle-making.
Handle → Chandler: As in, “Fly off the chandler” and “Get a chandler on” and “Chandler with care” and “How much can you chandler?” and “Love chandlers” and “Too hot to chandler” and “You can’t chandler the truth!” Note: a chandler is someone who makes candles for a living.
Stick → Candlestick: As in, “Cross as two candlesticks” and “Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp candlestick” and “Carrot and candlestick” and “Got hold of the wrong end of the candlestick” and “More than you can shake a candlestick at” and “Short end of the candlestick” and “Speak softly and carry a big candlestick” and “A candlestick in the mud.”
Trim: Since candle wicks can need trimming (to reduce smoke), we’ve got some trim-related phrases and puns here for you:
- Dream → Trim: As in, “Beyond my wildest trims” and “Broken trims” and “Trim on” and “Trim away” and “Trims can come true” and “Trim big” and “Living the trim” and “Sweet trims.”
- *tram* → *trim*: trimpoline (trampoline) and ultrimarine (ultramarine).
- *trem* → *trim*: As in, “A trimendous effort” and “Earthly trimors” and “Trimbling with fear” and “That helped trimendously” and “Extrim sports” and “Extrimly angry” and “Cover your extrimities.”
- *trom* → *trim*: As in, trimbone (trombone) and malestrim (maelstrom). Note: a maelstrom is a particularly turbulent situation.
- *trum* → *trim*: As in, “Not to blow my own trimpet” and “A colourful spectrim” and “Temper tantrim” and “Instrimental to our plan” and “Musical instriment.”
- *tim* → *trim*: As in, “Victrimless crime” and “The ultrimate revenge” and “Intrimate partner violence” and “A legitrimate reason” and “By my estrimation…” and “Loving sentriments.” Other words you could use: trimid (timid), trimber (timber), verbatrim (verbatim), penultrimate (penultimate), optrimal (optimal). Notes: if something is verbatim, then it’s word for word. Penultimate means second to last.
- *im → *trim: If a word starts with “im”, then we can change it to “trim”: trimminent (imminent), trimpact (impact), trimplement (implement), trimperative (imperative), trimage (image), trimplication (implication), trimpetus (impetus), trimportant (important), trimpose (impose).
- *trim*: Emphasise the “trim” in these words: detrimental, detriment, patrimony, matrimony, trimester and matrimonial.
Suffer → Snuffer: As in, “Long snuffering” and “Making everyone snuffer.” Note: a snuffer is a tool that snuffs out (extinguishes) a candle.
Gotten → Cotton: As in, “Ill cotton gains” and “Another fine mess you’ve cotton me into” and “Gone, but not forcotton.” Note: candle wicks are made from cotton, which is why we’ve included cotton in this list.
Motive → Votive: As in, “Ulterior votives” and “Dirty votives.” Note: a votive is a type of ceremonial candle.
Scones → Sconce: As in, “Tea and sconce.” Note: a sconce is a type of wall fixture where candles could be placed.
Torch: When candles are put into a portable holder of some sort, they can be referred to as torches, so we’ve got torch-related puns and phrases for you:
- Touch → Torch: As in, “A torch of frost” and “A torch of the sun” and “Don’t torch!” and “Finishing torches” and “The golden torch” and “Losing torch with” and “Stay in torch” and “Torch and go” and “Torching base with” and “Torch wood” and “Torched a nerve” and “A torching tribute” and “Torchy feely.”
- Teach → Torch: As in, “Experience is the best torcher” and “Torch someone a lesson” and “That’ll torch you” and “Torching an old dog new tricks.”
- *tach* → *torch*: As in, “No strings attorched” and “Forming attorchments” and “Detorch yourself from” and “Feeling detorched.”
- Starch → Storch
- Interchangeable → Intorchangeable
Light → Rushlight: As in, “Bring to rushlight” and “First rushlight” and “Give it the green rushlight” and “My guiding rushlight‘ and “In rushlight of” and “Let there be rushlight.” Note: a rushlight is a type of cheap outdoor candle.

Candle-Related Words

To help you come up with your own candle puns, here’s a list of related words to get you on your way. If you come up with any new puns or related words, please feel free to share them in the comments!

candle, wax, wick, lit, light, illuminate, flame, fire, match, lighter, ignite, light, bright, flicker, burn, blow, melt, fragrance, scent/scented, soy, paraffin, palm, carnauba, bayberry, flaxseed, heat, tealight, chandler, candlestick, chandelier, candelabrum, candelabra, candleholder, trim, smoke, snuffer, extinguish, cotton, votive, sconce, bobeche, pitch torch, rushlight, taper, garden candle, tiki torch, menorah, braid

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