Hangman Solver and Word Finder

Three blanks too many will wreck the result. Give the Hangman solver one underscore per hidden letter, add every miss, and it will filter more than 8,000 general English words.

Enter the Hangman board

Use an underscore for each hidden letter. Keep spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens where they appear.

Dictionary results

Hangman word suggestions appear here

Example: _a__ma_ with E, I, O, and U missed finds HANGMAN. The pattern length has to match the answer.

Use Hangman letter coverage wisely

A suggestion marked 72% appears in 72 out of every 100 remaining candidates, when the set is large enough. Repeated copies count once for coverage because one guess reveals them all. When two letters have similar coverage, inspect the actual candidates; one may split them into more informative groups.

The results are ranked by a broad usage weight and then alphabetically. That ordering helps common words surface, though a themed answer can sit much lower. A science round changes what “likely” means.

Review a Hangman round after playing

After a round, rebuild the board and look at which candidates survived each guess. It becomes clear why a high-frequency letter can still be weak in a particular pattern. The tool is also handy for checking whether a custom answer was too obscure for the agreed vocabulary.

Want to practice without a helper beside the board? Start a new online Hangman game, or review the scored word list first.

Hangman solver questions

Type one underscore for each hidden letter. A question mark or period is converted to an underscore. Preserve any visible spaces, apostrophes, and hyphens.
Required letters are known to occur somewhere in the answer even though their exact positions are not shown. Leave the field empty in a standard Hangman round.
Check the number of blanks and make sure a revealed letter was not also entered as missed. The dictionary focuses on general English and does not contain every name, inflection, or specialist term.
It is the share of the current candidate words that contain that letter at least once. It is coverage of this result set, rather than a guarantee that the hidden answer uses it.