Four festive word lists, a fresh 12×12 grid every game, and a large-print button
A Christmas word search you can play straight away on a phone, tablet or computer. Pick a list (Classic Christmas, Winter wonderland, Holiday treats or Christmas around the world), drag across the letters to mark each word, and the grid is generated again every time you play, so it never runs out. Tap Large print for bigger letters.
Choose one of the four Christmas word lists.
Find each word in the 12×12 grid: across, down, diagonally, forwards or backwards.
Press on the first letter and drag to the last one to mark a word.
Find all ten words to finish; your best time is saved in this browser.
Tap Large print at any time to make the letters bigger.
Visual search and letter-pattern scanning, the same skills as our everyday Word Search. The Christmas around the world list adds the word for Christmas in Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Dutch and French, plus Befana and Las Posadas.
Look for the rarest letter in a word first: the Z in no word here, but the K in KERSTMIS or the J in JOULU stands out.
Long words like GINGERBREAD and SINTERKLAAS only fit a few ways in a 12×12 grid, so find them first.
Sweep the grid row by row, then column by column, then along the diagonals, rather than jumping around.
Words that end in the same letters (STOCKING, SLEDDING) can share a corner: check both directions.
SANTA, REINDEER, SLEIGH, STOCKING, MISTLETOE, WREATH, CHIMNEY, TINSEL, PRESENTS, ORNAMENT
SNOWMAN, ICICLE, MITTENS, SCARF, SNOWFLAKE, FROST, SLEDDING, COCOA, FIREPLACE, BLIZZARD
GINGERBREAD, EGGNOG, FRUITCAKE, CANDYCANE, COOKIES, PUDDING, CHESTNUTS, FUDGE, TOFFEE, STOLLEN
NOEL, NAVIDAD, NATALE, JOULU, KERSTMIS, BEFANA, POSADAS, YULE, SINTERKLAAS, NATAL
Yes. It runs in your browser with no download, no account and no payment.
The grid is made fresh each game, so the page gives you the four word lists to print instead. Open Printable list and answers under the game to see them.
Yes. Tap the Large print button above the grid and the letters get bigger. It works on phones, tablets and computers.
Yes, words can run in all eight directions, including backwards and diagonally up.
Ten words per list and four lists, so forty Christmas words in all.