The BEST episodes of WordWorld season 1

Every episode of WordWorld season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of WordWorld season 1!

WordWorld is a show that is designed to help children to learn their letters. The entire animated world of WordWorld is made out of letters and the characters work through challenges to form words.

Last Updated: 6/21/2025Network: PBSStatus: Ended
Wee Little Whale
star
10.00
1 votes

#1 - Wee Little Whale

Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 5/5/2008

Sheep rescues a tiny whale who is stuck in some seaweed and brings her home to her haystack. They quickly become best of friends. But as Whale gets bigger and bigger, outgrowing Sheep’s tea cups, bathtubs and pools, Sheep realizes she must return her WordFriend to the sea. Although Whale may be big, her friendship with Sheep proves to be bigger, and the two discover a way to continue to play together: They just have to build a word! Build A Word: SUB

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Pig's Big Moonlight Feast
star
9.00
2 votes

#2 - Pig's Big Moonlight Feast

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/20/2007

When Pig is too sick to cook the Moonlight Feast, his friends step in, but they find that if you don’t follow the recipe you may end up "in the soup." Build A Word: CAKE

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Dog Wants to Play Ball
star
9.00
4 votes

#3 - Dog Wants to Play Ball

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/13/2007

Dog wants to play ball, but he’s having trouble communicating with his friends. Pig, Sheep and Frog each think Dog wants to do what they want to do. When Bear actually takes the time to listen to Dog, Dog gets his wish…and everyone has a ball! Build a Word: BALL

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Rocket to the Moon
star
8.52
61 votes

#4 - Rocket to the Moon

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/5/2007

Frog thinks that in order to build a big rocket he needs big, uppercase letters. But when he gets stranded on the moon with the Little Piggies, he learns that lowercase letters are just as useful as uppercase ones. Build a Word: ROCKET

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The Birds
star
7.75
4 votes

#5 - The Birds

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/5/2007

Sheep, Bear and Frog go out bird watching and get more than they bargained for: They find an egg! Sheep does her zany best to care for the "energetic" egg until the baby bird is born and is reunited with its mother. Build a Word: BIRD

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Waterlogged
star
7.67
3 votes

#6 - Waterlogged

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/14/2007

Frog and Pig’s friendship is put to the test when Frog moves in with Pig after his log sinks. After some silly mishaps, Pig and Frog finally come to an understanding – about how important it is to see things from a friend’s perspective. Build a Word: LOG

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Pies, Pies, Pies!
star
7.23
31 votes

#7 - Pies, Pies, Pies!

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/14/2007

When Pig promises to make a pie for everyone in WordWorld, he learns a hard lesson about keeping promises and sharing. Fortunately, Pig also learns about the letter S and how it can turn "pie" into "pies." Build a Word: PIES

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Nightlight
star
7.17
6 votes

#8 - Nightlight

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/18/2007

Bear won’t go to sleep. Try as her friends might to lull her off to sleep, Bear stubbornly refuses to turn off all her lights and go to bed. It’s not until they venture out into the night that the WordFriends realize Bear is afraid of the dark! But Frog has just the right solution to Bear’s problem, and it comes by joining two words to make a new one. Build a Word: NIGHTLIGHT

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Boppin' with the Bug Band
star
7.14
29 votes

#9 - Boppin' with the Bug Band

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/21/2007

Ant is having a band showcase on his radio show and while Bug, Fly and Bee have some really good music, they need a lot of help with their lyrics. Frog teaches the Bug Band all about rhyming and they eventually give a fantastic performance. Build A Word: BELL

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Mystery of the Disappearing Pie
star
7.13
31 votes

#10 - Mystery of the Disappearing Pie

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/6/2007

The pie Pig baked for Bear is missing! But have no fear…Detective Sheep is ready to help her WordFriends follow the letter clues and solve the mystery of the disappearing pie! Build a Word: BEAR

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Shuffleword
star
7.13
31 votes

#11 - Shuffleword

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 9/21/2007

When Pig and Ant get into an argument while playing Shuffleword, Pig storms off with the consonants and Ant storms off with the vowels but they soon realize that not only do they need each other’s letters to make words but they also need each other to have fun! Build A Word: PIT

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Sh Sh Shark
star
7.13
32 votes

#12 - Sh Sh Shark

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/13/2007

Shark is misunderstood. Everyone is afraid of him and won’t even give him a chance to prove he’s friendly. Everyone but Duck, that is, who doesn’t know that the letters S and H together make the ‘sh’ sound and, therefore, doesn’t know who Shark is. When Duck introduces his new WordFriend to the gang, Duck learns a lesson about the ‘sh’ sound, while everyone else learns that acceptance is an important part of friendship. Build a Word: SHOE

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Dancing Dog
star
7.11
28 votes

#13 - Dancing Dog

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/20/2007

It’s the day of the Word World Concert and no one is more excited than Dog – he loves music. Unfortunately, he can’t play an instrument. With the help of his good friend Bear, Dog discovers that anyone can make music! Build A Word: DRUM

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Pig's Present
star
7.11
28 votes

#14 - Pig's Present

Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/21/2008

It's Pig's birthday and his nephews, the Three Little Pigs, are making him a secret present. Although Pig promises not to peek, his curiosity about his present gets the better of him and wreaks havoc all over WordWorld. Will Pig ever learn to be patient? Build A Word: JET

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Duck's Family Reunion
star
7.10
31 votes

#15 - Duck's Family Reunion

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/6/2007

Because they have similar-sounding names, Duck mistakes a truck for a long-lost relative! His best friend Frog is a bit ruffled at the epidemic of silliness going around, but ends up saving the day for Duck and his word "family" when the truck gets stuck in the muck! Build a Word: TRUCK

Bit By Bit
star
7.07
29 votes

#16 - Bit By Bit

Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 6/23/2008

It is Monkey’s birthday, and a sick Frog entrusts Duck and Bug to take his present—a banana—to Monkey’s birthday party for him. In their enthusiasm to get to the party, Duck and Bug accidentally break the banana into letters…and they don’t know how to rebuild it! It’s just too big a word. Fortunately Elephant knows a thing or two about big words, and teaches them to build the banana back, bit by bit, based on the three syllables in the word.

W Drought
star
7.06
31 votes

#17 - W Drought

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/24/2007

It’s a hot summer day and all the WordFriends are using water to stay cool. But all the letter Ws start to disappear, and you can’t have "water" without the letter W! Sheep leads the gang in the hunt to discover just who’s causing the W drought. Build A Word: WATER

Duck's First Sleepover Party
star
7.03
29 votes

#18 - Duck's First Sleepover Party

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/19/2007

Duck attends his first sleep-over party but he’s nervous about not sleeping in his nest for the first time. After a long night of fun games his friends calm his anxiety by building him a soft, fluffy nest. Build A Word: NEST

Robots to the Rescue!
star
7.00
27 votes

#19 - Robots to the Rescue!

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 2/15/2008

When Frog discovers that you can make a word "more than one" by adding the letter S to the end of it, he becomes a mad scientist of sorts, making more and more of everything! Frog learns that while having a lot of stuff might seem like a good idea, too much of anything soon leads to chaos. Frog fortunately has a robot who likes to clean up! Build A Word: ROBOT

Get Your Coat
star
7.00
27 votes

#20 - Get Your Coat

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/7/2008

Duck thinks Frog doesn’t want to play in the rain because Duck accidentally broke Frog’s boat. But the real reason is that Frog doesn’t like the rain. Duck learns all about words that end with "oat" before finally coming across a word that will allow Frog to play outside in the rain: a coat! Build A Word: COAT

Pirate Ship
star
7.00
27 votes

#21 - Pirate Ship

Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/8/2008

While playing on the beach, Sheep, Duck and Shark find a message in a bottle. It's one of several rhyming clues that will lead them to a special treasure! Like hearty pirates, the trio follows the clues and rhyme their way across the sea—if only they had a ship! Build A Word: SHIP

M is for Map
star
7.00
27 votes

#22 - M is for Map

Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/24/2008

After a fun day of adventuring through the jungle, Sheep and Bear discover they are lost---and it’s almost dark! In their haste to get home before sunset, the WordFriends lose the letters to their map. They have to sound out and hunt down the letters in "map"---but with Adventure Sheep leading the way, nothing is ever easy!

Catch That C
star
7.00
27 votes

#23 - Catch That C

Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 8/11/2008

While Pig and Ant are making cookies, their bag of letter Cs gets away from them, sending the WordFriends on a wild goose chase all over WordWorld to catch that C! The bad news is that the letter C is in big demand that day. But the good news is that Pig and Ant have a lot of WordFriends who want to help them out!

Lost Letter L
star
7.00
27 votes

#24 - Lost Letter L

Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 8/11/2008

When Duck accidentally breaks the L off Frog's lamp, he decides not to tell Frog. Instead, he'll just fix it himself. Although Bug and Dog try to help, things spiral out of control, and soon Duck has broken a lamp, a lever and even Frog's log! Duck learns that everyone makes mistakes and admitting them sooner rather than later can make a big difference.

Play Ball
star
7.00
27 votes

#25 - Play Ball

Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 6/24/2008

The WordFriends play an exciting game of baseball, but Robot has never played before. With some practice, and a lot of encouragement from his WordFriends, Robot learns the game and turns into a slugging machine!