Jobs hangman
84 jobs and professions words, 6 wrong guesses, and a difficulty rating shown at the end of every round.
Chalking the board…
Playing this list
Job names are extremely regular. A large share end in -er, -or or -ist, so a guesser who lands the R or the T late in the word often gets the ending free and works backwards from there.
That regularity makes this a fast category, which is useful when you want several rounds rather than one long one. Use it for a warm-up and save countries or funny words for the main event.
The hard ones are the trades rather than the professions. Blacksmith, bricklayer and welder are shorter, less regular and carry consonant clusters that the -ist words do not.
The full list, with every clue and score, is on the jobs word list. If you want to set a word for somebody else instead, the create page turns any word into a shareable game.
What this list does to a guesser
Measured across all 84 words, this list runs 1.0 points easier than the site average. The eight letters most people open with — E, T, A, O, I, N, S, R — uncover about 68% of a typical jobs and professions word, and the single most productive opening letter here is R, which appears 87 times. The least useful of the eight is S at 34 appearances, so spending an early guess on it in this category is usually wasted.
Every word here contains at least one of those eight letters, which is why this category rarely produces a round that collapses in the first three guesses.
Rare letters do turn up: V, W, K, J appear across the list, and a word carrying one is usually the one that beats you. How the rating weighs that is set out on how difficulty is scored.
- judge · 9.0 · 5 letters · 20% common cover
- chef · 8.5 · 4 letters · 25% common cover
- blacksmith · 8.0 · 10 letters · 40% common cover
- referee · -1.9 · 7 letters · 86% common cover
- dietitian · -1.3 · 9 letters · 89% common cover
- engineer · -0.9 · 8 letters · 88% common cover
Questions
How do you play jobs hangman?
Guess a letter. If it appears in the word it fills in every position it occupies; if not, another part of the figure is drawn. You get 6 wrong guesses. The clue button is there if you want it and costs nothing.
How many words are in this game?
84, drawn from the jobs list. 59 rate easy, 20 medium and 5 hard, and the rating for each word is shown once the round ends.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
It is free and there is no account. The game runs in your browser and your streak is stored on your own device, so nothing is sent to a server.