Hangman words

Easy Hangman Words

Easy hangman words that guessers solve in a guess or two: common five to eight letter words with frequent letters. Play online or print the list.

Easy word
Guesses left 8 Misses — Time 0:00
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Read the word list

Easy has a particular meaning on this page: easy to guess, not easy to spell. Every word here scores 0 or 1 on our solver, meaning a sensible player makes at most one wrong guess before finding every letter. Words such as father, himself, energy and instead get there because they are made of the most common letters in English, and because they are long enough that the pattern narrows quickly.

The selection is simple. We took words ranked between the 400th and 4,000th most common, kept those scoring 0 or 1 with five to eight letters, and listed the commonest first. The very top 400 are skipped because they are mostly small function words. What is left is vocabulary an upper-elementary student or an adult would use without thinking: process, action, energy, security, industry.

Do not hand this list to a young child because it is called easy. Words like science, security and evidence are quick to guess but hard to spell, and a six-year-old who guesses them will not be able to write them down. For young children, hangman words for kids is the list built for spelling.

60 entries. Our solver needed 0.6 wrong guesses on average: 60 easy, 0 medium and 0 hard. The toughest is action (1 misses), the quickest father (0).

Difficulty from our solver:Easy 0–1 missesMedium 2–4Hard 5+

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How to use this list

Use this list when speed matters. A whole class can play a round in under a minute, which makes it a good warm-up or a way to keep a restless group moving. It also works for new English learners and for players who are still learning how the game works, because the first few letters almost always land.

To make a round harder without leaving the list, play it with only four wrong guesses allowed, or ask the guesser to name a word before using the last guess. Once the group wins every round, move up to the good hangman words list, where scores start at 3.

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Print a Easy Hangman worksheet

Easy Hangman printable hangman worksheet: eight puzzles with letter blanks, a drawing frame and an alphabet strip

Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.

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Draw eight different words from this list, right here. Same layout, new answer key.

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