Transport hangman
85 transport words, 6 wrong guesses, and a difficulty rating shown at the end of every round.
Chalking the board…
Playing this list
Transport words are long and heavily compounded, which makes them forgiving. Doubledecker and skateboard give themselves away as soon as half of one appears, and the guesser can finish from very little.
The difficulty is concentrated in the borrowed ones. Funicular, catamaran and gondola all keep their original spelling, and funicular in particular defeats anybody who has never taken one.
For younger players, stay with the vehicles and skip the machinery. Gearbox, odometer and fuselage are the hard end of this list and they are not words a child will have met.
The full list, with every clue and score, is on the transport 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 85 words, this list sits almost exactly on the site average. The eight letters most people open with — E, T, A, O, I, N, S, R — uncover about 61% of a typical transport word, and the single most productive opening letter here is A, which appears 71 times. The least useful of the eight is S at 17 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: K, V, X, W and others 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.
- clutch · 9.5 · 6 letters · 17% common cover
- pickup · 9.4 · 6 letters · 17% common cover
- dinghy · 8.3 · 6 letters · 33% common cover
- estate · -2.0 · 6 letters · 100% common cover
- airliner · -0.5 · 8 letters · 88% common cover
- engine · -0.3 · 6 letters · 83% common cover
Questions
How do you play transport 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?
85, drawn from the transport list. 42 rate easy, 32 medium and 11 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.