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Jobs Hangman Words
Jobs and careers hangman words, from teacher and farmer to veterinarian and electrician. Play online or print a sheet with an answer key for class.
Read the word list
Career words belong in most elementary classrooms because community helpers is a standard unit in kindergarten through grade three. This list covers those jobs, from teacher, nurse and firefighter to baker and plumber, and then stretches into the longer professional titles that older students will meet: veterinarian, accountant, electrician, pharmacist and photographer.
All the titles are gender-neutral, so the lesson stays inclusive and the spelling is simpler. The difficulty runs from four-letter answers such as chef to long words with awkward letter groups, like librarian and paramedic. Phrases such as mail carrier, flight attendant and park ranger cover jobs where the title has two words, which suits whiteboard play where the spaces are visible.
68 entries. Our solver needed 2.0 wrong guesses on average: 34 easy, 26 medium and 8 hard. The toughest is chef (8 misses), the quickest teacher (0).
- teacher Easy · 0
- doctor Medium · 4
- nurse Medium · 3
- dentist Easy · 0
- firefighter Easy · 0
- farmer Medium · 4
- baker Hard · 5
- butcher Easy · 1
- plumber Hard · 5
- electrician Easy · 0
- carpenter Medium · 2
- mechanic Easy · 1
- pilot Medium · 3
- engineer Easy · 0
- scientist Easy · 0
- architect Medium · 2
- librarian Easy · 1
- cashier Easy · 1
- chef Hard · 8
- author Medium · 3
- artist Easy · 1
- musician Easy · 1
- actor Easy · 1
- veterinarian Easy · 0
- pharmacist Medium · 2
- accountant Medium · 2
- lawyer Medium · 3
- judge Hard · 7
- journalist Easy · 1
- photographer Easy · 1
- programmer Easy · 1
- designer Easy · 0
- tailor Medium · 2
- barber Hard · 7
- florist Medium · 2
- gardener Easy · 0
- janitor Medium · 2
- custodian Easy · 1
- paramedic Easy · 1
- surgeon Easy · 1
- therapist Easy · 1
- lifeguard Easy · 0
- coach Hard · 5
- captain Medium · 2
- astronaut Medium · 2
- zookeeper Easy · 0
- mayor Medium · 3
- banker Medium · 4
- builder Medium · 2
- driver Medium · 3
- painter Easy · 1
- sailor Medium · 3
- cleaner Easy · 1
- inventor Easy · 0
- mail carrier Hard · 5
- flight attendant Medium · 2
- police officer Medium · 2
- bus driver Medium · 3
- truck driver Medium · 3
- school principal Easy · 1
- construction worker Easy · 1
- park ranger Hard · 5
- hair stylist Medium · 2
- dental hygienist Easy · 1
- news reporter Easy · 1
- sales clerk Easy · 1
- graphic designer Easy · 0
- tour guide Medium · 2
Words worth a closer look
- plumberFrom the Latin plumbum, meaning lead, because pipes were once made of lead. That explains the silent b, which the word keeps from its Latin root.
- veterinarianTwelve letters with six vowels. Many students drop an i or an a, so it is a strong spelling bee practice word.
- librarianA frequent misspelling is libarian, missing the first r. Saying library and librarian slowly shows the repeated br sound.
- carpenterTraced to a Latin word for a cart maker, since early carpenters built wagons as well as houses.
- surgeonFrom a Greek word meaning hand work. The soft g in the middle is spelled geo, which looks different from how it sounds.
- firefighterReplaces the older gendered title and is a compound of fire and fighter. Students sometimes write it as two words or drop the second f.
- accountantDouble c, then single n and t. Many players guess too many double letters, and the ount middle is a pattern shared with count.
- pharmacistThe ph makes an f sound, which catches young spellers. It has only three vowels in ten letters.
Using this list in class
Use this list during a careers week or a community helpers unit in the early grades. After each round, ask the class what the person does, what tools they use and who they help. For a longer activity, invite a family member to visit and have students guess their job from the blanks before they are introduced.
In upper elementary, the longer words work well with a project on career research: each student picks one job from the list, writes a short paragraph and presents it. Counselors can use the list as a conversation starter about what students want to be when they grow up.
Print a Jobs Hangman worksheet
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.
Need another sheet?
Draw eight different words from this list, right here. Same layout, new answer key.
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