Themed word lists

Hangman Categories

60 categories and 4,274 words and phrases, written for the units, holidays and seasons of a school year. Each one opens as a game, a scored word list and a printable worksheet with an answer key.

The category is the clue in hangman, and a good category list does two jobs: it gives players a fair way in, and it mixes quick wins with real challenges. Every list here runs from short, familiar words to long or tricky ones, and every word shows the number of wrong guesses our solver made on it. Holiday lists are timed for the classroom calendar; subject lists follow the vocabulary of common school units.

Holidays and seasons

Animals and nature

Food

World and history

School subjects

Everyday and fun

Can't find your topic?

Type your own words into the hangman maker to play them, or the printable maker to print them. Or ask us for a list: we add the ones teachers request most.