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This paper deals with wordplay-based humorous word formations in German found in Duden-GWDS (2012). Wordplay-based word formations are characterized by additions and/or shortenings of morphemes that aim at homonymy, semantic anomaly, ambiguity, reanalysis, or literalization. All these linguistic manipulations by wordplay can contribute to promote incongruity. In order to facilitate the incongruity-resolution process and evoke humorous effects, wordplay-based compounding resorts to mainly ambiguity and literalization. Humorous derivatives are deviant from the conventional choice of derivation bases and use pseudo-affixes to create incongruity. And the incongruity in abbreviations and blends results from demotivated newly forms that have some connotations.