Vocabulary Worksheet Generator

About the Vocabulary Worksheet Generator

Type or paste a word list — this week’s spelling words, a science topic, a foreign-language unit — and get four kinds of printable worksheets from it, each with an answer key: matching (words and meanings in two columns), fill in the blanks (your example sentences with the word blanked out, and a box of words to use), a word scramble and missing letters. Give each word its meaning and, if you like, an example sentence on the same line.

Choose which worksheets to make, a title and a line for the class, the letters to leave out, shuffled or typed order, A4 or US Letter, larger type for young learners, and up to four versions so pupils sitting together get different sheets. With a pass the worksheets download as a PDF or an editable Word file, or print straight from the page; the free preview shows their first pages, marked. Everything is made in your browser: your words are not uploaded.

Common uses

• Weekly spelling and vocabulary lists in primary school.
• Topic words in science, geography or history, with meanings and sentences.
• Language classes: Spanish, French, German, Hindi or Russian vocabulary.
• English as a second language, with simple meanings as clues.
• Homework, cover lessons and revision packs, with different versions for neighbours.

The four worksheets

• Matching: the words numbered on the left, their meanings shuffled on the right with letters, so that no meaning sits beside its own word. Pupils write the letter on the line. Up to 26 words a part (A to Z); a longer list is shared out evenly over two or more parts.
• Fill in the blanks: each example sentence with the word blanked out — also a longer form of it, such as running for run, which the answer key then gives as “running (run)” — then, for words without a usable sentence, their meaning to find the word for. A box of the words to use is optional.
• Word scramble: the letters of each word in a new order, never the word itself; in a phrase each word is scrambled in its place, and hyphens and apostrophes stay put. The meaning can be shown as a clue.
• Missing letters: the vowels, about a third, about half, or every other letter left out, always at least one and never all of them, with the meaning as an optional clue.

Writing the list

One word or phrase per line. Between the word, its meaning and its sentence put a tab (what a spreadsheet gives when you copy two or three columns), a bar (|) or a dash with spaces ( – ); after the word a colon, an equals sign or a comma works too (orbit: the path of a planet), and the first of them ends the word. With spaced dashes, the last part counts as the sentence only when it contains the word, so a dash inside a meaning stays in it. A number or bullet in front of a line (1., 2), •) is left out, a header row such as Word, Definition, Sentence is skipped, a word given twice is used once, and up to 100 words are used. In a CSV file, quoted columns are read as columns, so a meaning may contain commas.

If your list has words and example sentences but no meanings, choose An example sentence under When a line has two parts.

Languages and letters

Letters are counted as a reader sees them, so é, ñ, ü and Hindi conjuncts stay one letter in the scramble and the missing-letter puzzles. The PDF’s fonts cover the Latin alphabet with its accents, Vietnamese, Greek, Cyrillic and Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit). Letters of other scripts print as “?” in the PDF and the page says so; the Word file and printing from the page keep them. Leave out the vowels works on the Latin alphabet; in other scripts it leaves out about a third of the letters.

Limitations

• The worksheets use your words exactly as typed: a spelling mistake in the list goes onto the sheets and into the key.
• Fill in the blanks finds the word or a longer form that starts with it (run, runs, running), not an irregular form such as ran; such a word gets its meaning line instead.
• In the PDF, scripts other than Latin, Vietnamese, Greek, Cyrillic and Devanagari print as “?” (for example Arabic, Chinese or Tamil); use the Word file or Print for those.
• Matching labels meanings A to Z, so a list of more than 26 words with meanings is split into parts.

Privacy

On this device: nothing is sent

Your word list stays in your browser: the worksheets are made on your device, and the list and settings are kept in this browser’s storage so they are there next time. Nothing is uploaded.