Shakespeare's Hangman

Did you know that Shakespeare invented (or gave new meanings to) thousands of new words and expressive phrases that we use in our daily speech?

Guess those words with the Shakespeare Hangman gadget.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was by far the most important individual influence on the development of the modern English we speak today.

In all of his work - the plays, the sonnets and the narrative poems - Shakespeare uses more than 17,000 words. Of those, more than 3,500 were first used by Shakespeare (although many of them didn't catch on and today we have "only" incorporated around 1,200 of them in one form or another), and he also gave new meanings to countless expressions and already known words. Shakespeare invented new words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original.

About Shakespeare Hangman Gadget

Shakespeare Hangman gadget challenges you to guess a few hundred words coined by William Shakespeare. Think fast and add your name to the high scores list. Add this hangman gadget to your home page and try to guess the hidden word as fast as you can. You just have 6 chances to get it right.

No special settings. Just click "New game" for new game and "View hi-scores" to view Hangman Top Scores. :-)