Label the Parts of a Guitar – Worksheet With Answers

All 11 parts on the diagram

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Headstock and neck 7

Headstock It carries the six tuners, three on each side here.
Fingerboard Also called the fretboard. Strings are pressed against it to change notes.
Strings Six steel strings: two thin plain ones and four wound ones.
Tuners Also called machine heads. Each changes the tension of one string.
Nut A small strip of bone or plastic. Its grooves guide the strings.
Frets Metal strips in the fingerboard. A string pressed against one changes pitch.
Position markers Inlaid dots that show the player where the hand is.

Body 2

Body A hollow box: a top, a back and sides.
Waist The narrow middle of the body, between the upper and lower bouts.

On the top 2

Sound hole An opening in the top. Sound from inside comes out here.
Bridge It holds the strings and passes their vibration to the top.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-09-30, a name kept only where two independent sources use it for this part. (1) Wikipedia, text only: Guitar (its numbered part list: headstock, nut, machine heads or tuners, frets, inlays, neck, heel, body, bridge, pickguard, back, soundboard or top, body sides or ribs, sound hole with rosette, strings, saddle, fretboard or fingerboard; and its sections on the nut, truss rod, bridge, saddle, pickguard, bracing and strap buttons), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar ; Steel-string acoustic guitar (upper bouts, lower bouts, waist), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel-string_acoustic_guitar ; Bridge (instrument), section Bridge pin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_(instrument) ; Classical guitar, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_guitar . (2) An instrument maker's online Musical Instrument Guide, The Structure of the Acoustic Guitar (its part list: head, tuning keys or pegs, neck, nut, fingerboard, strings, position markers, frets, body, sound hole, pick guard, bridge, saddle, bridge pins, strap button, top, back, side) and How the Acoustic Guitar is Made (woods of the top, back and sides; bracing under the top), https://www.yamaha.com/en/musical_instrument_guide/acoustic_guitar/mechanism/ . (3) Hugo Pinksterboer, Tipbook Acoustic Guitar, searched in full text at https://archive.org/details/tipbookacousticg00hugo (rosette, heel, waist, upper and lower bout, bridge saddle, bridge pins, position markers, tuning machines or machine heads, peghead, sides or rims, plain and wound strings). (4) Larry Sandberg, The Acoustic Guitar Guide, searched in full text at https://archive.org/details/acousticguitargu0000sand (headstock or peghead, heel, waist, bouts, saddle, bridge pin, end pin, soundboard, soundhole, classical guitars have no pickguards). Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-09-30 from plain geometry; no maker's guitar, nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

To label the parts of a guitar, write a name on the line for each number. Seven numbers are on the whole guitar; four more are on the headstock, drawn large underneath so its small parts show.

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Word bank to label the guitar parts

In alphabetical order, to copy onto the board: body, bridge, fingerboard, frets, headstock, nut, position markers, sound hole, strings, tuners, waist.

Numbers that sit close together

On the whole guitar, 2 and 3 are both on the neck: 2 is the strip the frets cross (fingerboard), 3 the six lines that run along it (strings). 4 sits inside the big rounded shape (body), 5 on its outline where it pinches in (waist). On the lower drawing, 9 is the upright strip at the end of the fingerboard (nut), 10 a metal line across it (frets), and 11 a round dot between two of those lines (position markers).

When marking, fretboard is right on line 2, machine heads or tuning pegs on line 8, and inlays on line 11.
Ten more parts, the neck, saddle and pickguard among them, are numbered on the labeled acoustic guitar.

Questions and answers

How many strings does a guitar have?

Six on a standard guitar, and six are drawn on this sheet. A twelve-string guitar has six pairs of strings in place of six single ones.

What are the dots on a guitar fretboard for?

They are position markers, also called inlays. They mark frets such as the 3rd, 5th, 7th and 12th, so the player can see where the hand is along the neck.

What do the frets on a guitar do?

Frets are metal strips set in the fingerboard. Pressing a string against one sets the length that vibrates, and so the note. Each fret is a half step from the next.

Is there a label the guitar worksheet with answers?

Yes. The answer key prints the same two drawings with the eleven names on their numbered lines, so a class can label the guitar with answers to check against.