Fill in the Blanks Generator
Turn any passage into a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. Mark the words you want blanked, and get a student page, word bank, and answer key.
About this fill-in-the-blanks generator
Paste any passage and mark the words you want removed by wrapping them in double brackets — [[photosynthesis]], for example — and this tool builds a complete worksheet: the passage with those words replaced by blank lines, an optional word bank listing the removed words in scrambled order, and a matching answer key with the original words restored. Marking blanks this way, rather than having the tool guess which words are important, means you always get exactly the blanks you intended, whether that's key vocabulary, historical dates, science terms, or grammar words.
Blank line style is entirely cosmetic but genuinely changes how a worksheet feels: a solid line reads as the most traditional and formal, dashed or dotted lines are common in early-elementary worksheets, and a boxed blank works well when you want the answer visually separated from the surrounding sentence, such as for a single vocabulary word rather than a longer phrase. Blank width scales with the length of the word removed, so a five-letter answer gets a shorter blank than a three-word phrase.
The word bank is optional and, when included, lists every removed word or phrase in a shuffled order rather than the order they appeared in the passage, so simply reading down the list in order isn't itself the answer. The answer key always prints on its own page, so it's easy to keep separate from the student copy.
Nothing you paste is uploaded anywhere; the worksheet, word bank, and answer key are all generated locally in your browser.
Pasted text is treated as plain text throughout, even if it happens to contain characters that would normally have special meaning on a web page, so a passage copied from somewhere else won't accidentally break the layout or display incorrectly.
Frequently asked questions
How do I mark which words should be blanked?
Wrap the word or phrase in double brackets, like [[example]]. Anything inside double brackets becomes a blank in the student version and appears normally in the answer key.
Can I blank out a whole phrase, not just one word?
Yes. Double brackets work around any run of text, so [[the water cycle]] becomes a single blank covering the whole phrase, not three separate blanks.
Does the word bank give away the answer order?
No, the word bank is shuffled into a random order each time, so it doesn't match the order the blanks appear in the passage.
Can I turn off the word bank for a harder version?
Yes, uncheck "include a word bank" to make the same passage a recall exercise instead of a word-matching one.
Is my passage saved or uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything is generated locally in your browser; your passage is never sent anywhere.