Word search maker
Make a printable word search from your own words
Paste your list, choose how hard it should be, and print it with the answer key. Large print is a toggle, not a different download. Nothing to install and no sign-up.
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Common questions
What do the difficulty settings change?
Difficulty changes the directions words can run, not just the grid size. Easy places words across and down only. Medium adds diagonals. Hard adds backwards words in every direction, which roughly doubles the search time for an adult solver.
How many words should a word search have?
Ten to twenty suits a single sheet. Fewer than eight leaves a grid that is mostly filler letters, and past about twenty-five the letters get small enough to be tiring.
What happens if a word will not fit?
The grid sizes itself to your longest word and how many words you gave it. If a word still cannot be placed you are told which one, rather than being handed a puzzle that is quietly missing it.