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How to make a word search (with AI or your own words)

A one-minute walkthrough of the free Word Search Maker: let AI write the word list or paste your own, pick the grid size and difficulty, check the answer key, try the Plus shapes and themes, and download a print-ready PDF.

1:02 · Narrated, with captions (turn them on with CC)

Step by step

  1. 1Open the Word Search Maker.
  2. 2Type or paste your words into the Words box — or describe the puzzle in Let AI write it and press Generate.
  3. 3Read the AI's list and press Use this; the title and words fill in.
  4. 4Pick a grid size (10×10, 13×13, 17×17 or 22×22) and a difficulty: Easy runs words across and down, Medium adds diagonals, Hard adds backwards words.
  5. 5Turn on Answer key to check where every word is.
  6. 6With Plus, choose a shaped grid, a page theme, or remove the credit line.
  7. 7Press Download PDF and print.

Transcript

Here's how to make a word search. It takes about a minute. You can type your own words into the list. Or, with Plus, describe the puzzle in one sentence, and the AI writer drafts it for you. Read the draft first. Then click Use this, and the title and all fourteen words drop right in. Next, pick a grid size and a level. Easy, medium or hard. Flip on the answer key to check it. That's included, and it's free. Plus adds a few extras. Thirty shaped grids, like this star. Thirty page themes. And a clean PDF, without the small credit line. Everything else you just saw is free. Now download the PDF, and print it. And that's your word search, ready to hand out, with the answer key at the back.

Chapter by chapter

0:04 Let AI write it
Type or paste your own words, or describe the puzzle and let AI write the title and word list.
0:22 Pick size & level
Choose the grid size and Easy, Medium or Hard; the puzzle reshuffles instantly.
0:27 Check the answer key
Turn on the answer key to see every word highlighted — it's included free.
0:33 The extras (Plus)
Plus adds 30 shaped grids, 30 page themes and a clean PDF with no credit line.
0:47 Download & print
Download the PDF: the puzzle plus its answer key.

AI writing is a paid extra (the day pass or a plan) and is in beta — you read what it writes before it goes into your puzzle. Parts marked Plus in the video need PuzzlePage Plus or a day pass. Everything else shown is free. See the plans.