The Wizard's Workshop
Make Your Own Word Search
Your words, your shape, ready to play or print in seconds.
Paste any word list — spelling words, party themes, family names — and watch the puzzle take shape as you type. Choose a square, circle, diamond, or spiral grid, pick how tricky the directions should be, and step through layouts until one feels right. Then solve it right here, print it, or send it to someone with a link.
What the word search maker does
The maker is free and needs no signup or account — type or paste your word list and the puzzle appears as you go. Solve it on screen with the same solver the rest of the site uses, print it for pencil-and-paper, or copy a link that is the puzzle. Nothing is stored on our servers, so the link never expires and nothing is ever saved to an account.
- Free, with no signup and no account
- Your own custom word list, any theme
- Square, circle, diamond, or spiral grids
- Difficulty and word-direction control, including backwards words
- A difficulty rating read from the finished grid, not the settings
- Themed word packs if you need a starting point
- Play online in the browser, print it, or share it by link
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