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For single activities with more options, there is the word search maker, the crossword maker, word scramble and missing letter worksheets. Sight words? The Dolch sight words pack does the same for every Dolch level.
These are the clues, syllable counts and rhymes the generator fills in for eight long a words, straight from its dictionary files (24,329 words with a clue). You would see the same in the editor and could change any of them.
| Word | Crossword clue | Syllables | Rhymes |
|---|---|---|---|
| cake | A ____ is a sweet baked food. | 1 | take, make, break |
| rain | Drops of water that fall out of clouds in the sky. | 1 | explain, pain, brain |
| play | To do things for amusement. | 1 | they, okay, say |
| gray | One of the colors people can see. | 1 | they, okay, say |
| train | A long vehicle with many cars that are joined together. | 1 | explain, pain, brain |
| snake | A ____ is a long, thin reptile with no legs. | 1 | take, make, break |
| paint | ____ is a liquid used to colour something | 1 | saint, complaint, faint |
| day | Period from sunrise to sunset. | 1 | they, okay, say |
Clues are adapted from Simple English Wiktionary, which explains words in basic English, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license: we take the first sense that isn’t marked as slang or rude, hide the word itself behind a blank and keep one sentence. The dictionary files are shared under the same license. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (© 1993–2015 Carnegie Mellon University, BSD license: full text). Which words are included, and the most-common-first order of the rhymes, come from FrequencyWords by Hermit Dave (CC BY-SA 4.0). Rhymes are only suggested from common words, and a list of words that don’t belong on a primary-school worksheet is left out.
A dictionary written by volunteers can be wrong, and the first sense is not always the one a teacher meant (“sum” comes up as an amount of money, not an addition). That is why every clue is a text box: read them once before printing.
Put the details after a # in the address and this page opens with the worksheet already filled in — handy for a class newsletter, a bookmark or a link from a chat assistant. The part after # stays in your browser; it is never sent to our server.
Parameters
#words= the spelling words, separated with | (up to 20)#title= the list title#name= the child’s nameCombine several with & (for example #title=…&words=…). Separate list items with |.
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Paste or type the words — one per line or separated by commas, up to 20. The generator looks up a clue, the syllables and rhyming words for each one, shows every page as you type, and builds one PDF with all of them. Untick any page you don’t want, then press Download PDF or Print.
From Simple English Wiktionary, a dictionary written in basic English, with the word itself replaced by a blank (“A ____ is a sweet baked food.”). Forms like “caught” get “Past tense of catch.” Senses marked as slang, rude or adult are skipped. Wiki entries can be wrong, so read the clues before printing and edit any that don’t fit: they are text boxes. A word with no entry gets “Starts with F, 6 letters.”
Any list from kindergarten to 5th grade. The grade setting changes the line size: big lines and 8 words per page for kindergarten and 1st grade (with a word bank on the crossword), 10 for 2nd and 3rd, 12 for 4th and 5th.
Syllable counts come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which lists how American English words are pronounced. The worksheet asks the child to clap and circle the number; the answer key has the count and up to three rhyming words, picked from common words and filtered for a primary-school worksheet. You can change both before printing.
Your list, title and any clues you edit stay saved in this browser so next week starts where you left off (the child’s name is not saved). The worksheets are built on your device. To get the clues, the page downloads small dictionary files from this site by first letter; the words themselves are not sent anywhere.