Vocabulary and word search puzzles

Make word search and crossword puzzles from lists of relevant vocabulary words. Puzzles can be any size or shape, and the puzzle generator lets you view different possible fills and pick one you like.

You can either make a puzzle from a list of words and write the clues later, or write the words and clues first and then make a puzzle from them.

Word Search Puzzles

The word search generator will try to fit as many words as it can in the grid. You can stop the fill when you like, and view possible alternatives. In addition, the program will automatically check against a blacklist of words to avoid: this ensures your puzzle doesn't accidentally contain additional potentially embarrassing words.

You can also target a 'hidden word' - some word or phrase spelled out by the letters that are not part of the search words.

Freeform/vocabulary Puzzles

Generate these crosswords either as an outline puzzle or with black squares. They can be rectangular or generated in a particular shape. The filler lets you chose which fill you prefer, and to increase/decrease the grid size - for example if you need to fit more words in.

Writing words and clues

Open and edit one of the provided theme word lists, or type in your own. After making the puzzle you can write clues just for the words which are used.

Alternatively write words and clues and then build a puzzle. The words and clues can be saved in a clue database for re-use in later puzzles.

Clue Generation

You can also use AI to generate simple clues. Specify the style and language, and optionally give special instructions. The AI generator can also handle multi-language word translation puzzles.

Theme word lists

To get you started many theme word lists are supplied, including:

Airports
Anatomy
Architecture
Artists
Astronomy
Authors
Baseball players
Battles
Bible
Biology
Boats
Bodies of Water
Books
Botany
British castles
Business
Capitals
Card games
Chemistry
Christmas
Classical music
Clothes
Composers
Computer science
Countries
Deities

Dickens
Dinosaurs
Dogs
Drinks
Education
Elements
Engineering
Environment
Famous people
Flowers
Food
Football clubs
Fruit
Global warming
Greek mythology
Herbs and Spices
Internet
Jobs
Latin sayings
Law
Linguistics
Mathematics
Movie stars
Movies
Musical instruments
Myths and Legends

Nautical terms
Photography
Phrases
Physics
Physiology
Places
Plants
Poets
Presidents
Prime Ministers
Psychoanalysis
Religion
Rivers
Rock and Pop Groups
Shakespeare
Sustainable energy
Technical
Theatre
Trademarks
Trees and Shrubs
Tribes
Vegetables
Writers
Zoology

There are also lists for language learners:
English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Portuguese.

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