Type your words or pick a theme, then play on screen or print with an answer key. No sign-up, right in your browser.
The maker builds a word search from the words you type, one per line, or from one of 15 ready themes (Christmas, New Year, Easter, Thanksgiving, Halloween, animals, fruits, countries, school, the body, jobs, sports, space, colors and feelings), each with 30 words or more. You pick the grid size, from 8 to 25 columns, and the difficulty: easy hides words left to right and top to bottom (2 directions), medium adds the two forward diagonals (4 directions) and hard also hides words backward and upward (8 directions). The filler letters can be random or taken from the words themselves, which makes the search much harder, and the cells left over can spell a hidden message. Every puzzle grows from a 6 character seed: the same list, the same options and the same seed always give the same puzzle, so a teacher can reprint an activity months later and get an identical sheet. Words that do not fit are listed in a notice and never dropped silently. You can play on screen (drag with a mouse or tap the first and last letters), print the puzzle and its answer key on Letter or A4, make up to 12 different versions of one list for a class, download a PNG and share a link that carries the words, the options and the seed.
Paste the code into your HTML and the tool shows up on your page, without J-Kit's navigation and ads. It still runs in the browser of whoever visits your site.
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<a href="https://jkit.tools/en/tools/word-search-maker">Word Search Maker</a>
Type your words (one per line) or tap a theme, set the grid size and tap Print. The sheet comes out with a title, a name and date line, the grid and the word list with a small checkbox for each word. On a 15 by 15 grid on Letter paper each cell is about 12 mm (0.47 in), comfortable to read and to circle.
12 of 12 words in the grid
Medium: adds the diagonals that go up and down to the right.
The same list, the same options and the same seed always give the same puzzle.
1 version, 2 sheets.
In the print dialog, turn off Headers and footers and use 100% scale.
The link carries the words, the options and the seed. Whoever opens it sees the same puzzle.