Charades Generator – Random Charades Words
670+ charades words picked because you can actually act them out. Eight categories, three difficulty levels, a 60-second timer and a scoreboard for up to six teams.
Act out the word using gestures only — no talking, no sounds, no pointing at objects in the room. Your team has 60 seconds to guess as many words as they can.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you play charades?
One player draws a word and acts it out using only gestures — no speaking, no pointing at objects, no drawing. Their team has 60 seconds to guess as many words as possible. Then play passes to the next team.
How many charades words does this generator have?
Over 670, spread across eight categories and three difficulty levels. Every word was chosen because it can be acted out — you will not find static objects like "chair" or "lamp" here, because nobody can mime them.
Does the charades generator have a timer?
Yes. Each round runs on a 60-second countdown that starts automatically with the first word. When time expires, the round score is saved and play moves to the next team.
Can I keep score for multiple teams?
Yes. Choose between 2 and 6 teams and the scoreboard tracks each team across rounds. A team's score is its correct guesses minus its skipped words, so skipping is not free.
What does difficulty mean in charades?
Difficulty here means how hard the word is to act out, not how obscure it is. "Sneezing" is an easy word; "jealous" is hard, because you have to show an emotion without a prop or a plot.
More About Charades
The standard charades gestures
Before the round starts, agree on the signals. Hold up fingers for the number of words, then again for which word you are on. Tug your earlobe for "sounds like". Pull your hands apart for "longer word", push them together for "shorter". Cranking an old film camera means movie; a rectangle drawn in the air means TV show. Teams that settle this in advance guess roughly twice as many words per round.
Why we cut the objects
Most charades word lists online are recycled from generic random-word generators, which is why they hand you "table" and "bottle". Those are Pictionary words: you draw them. Charades needs verbs, emotions, occupations and titles with a physical shape to them. Every word here was filtered on that single question — can a person perform this? If you want the object words, they belong on our Pictionary word generator.
Charades for kids
The Kids category on Easy holds words that a five-year-old can both understand and perform: animals with obvious movements, everyday actions, familiar characters. Drop the timer pressure by letting the whole room guess instead of one team, and let younger children make sounds — the no-talking rule is the part that frustrates them, not the acting.
Charades, Pictionary and Alias
The three games share a shape and differ in the channel. Charades is body, Pictionary is drawing, and Alias is speech — you describe the word without saying it. The same word is easy in one and impossible in another, which is why each game on this site has its own hand-built word list rather than a shared one.