This school word search has 72 words from a school day: supplies such as PENCIL, RULER and PROTRACTOR, subjects from MATH to GEOGRAPHY, and people from TEACHER to JANITOR. A 12×12 grid hides twelve, ideal for a class warm-up. No app and no sign-up, no interstitial before the grid, offline play and full keyboard control.
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School words have a helpful mix of rare letters and doubled letters, and the list is long on words that most players can spell without looking. Use the letters before you start reading rows: they find most of a grid in the first few minutes.
QUIZ is the only word with a Q or a Z, and it fills just four cells, so find the Q and you have it. EXAM and TEXTBOOK carry the only Xs. J belongs to JANITOR and PROJECT, and K runs through BOOK, NOTEBOOK, DESK, CHALK, MARKER, LOCKER and BACKPACK.
CLASS, LESSON, RECESS, COMPASS, SCISSORS, CLASSROOM, ESSAY and ASSIGNMENT all have a double S, and SCISSORS has two. An SS pair is a good anchor, but with several of these words in play, check the letters around it before you drag.
PEN sits inside PENCIL, CLASS inside CLASSROOM, and BOOK inside NOTEBOOK and TEXTBOOK. The generator only ever uses one word from each nest, so a short word you spot inside a longer list word is not a separate find. The three-letter words GYM, BUS and ART are best left for a final row-by-row sweep.
The school list has 72 words, from PEN, GYM, BUS and ART to four ten-letter words: DICTIONARY, PROTRACTOR, PLAYGROUND and ASSIGNMENT. Lengths spread evenly between four and eight letters, which suits mixed-ability groups.
It covers the whole day. There is the classroom kit (DESK, BOARD, CHALK, MARKER, ERASER, PENCIL, CRAYON, BINDER, RULER, COMPASS, PROTRACTOR, STAPLER), the subjects (MATH, READING, WRITING, SPELLING, SCIENCE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ART, MUSIC, DRAMA), the people (TEACHER, STUDENT, PUPIL, PRINCIPAL, COUNSELOR, NURSE, JANITOR) and the places beyond the classroom: LIBRARY, CAFETERIA, GYM, HALLWAY, PLAYGROUND, LOCKER and the BUS. The year is marked by TEST, EXAM, GRADE, REPORT, SEMESTER, GRADUATE and DIPLOMA.
The vocabulary leans American, with RECESS, CAFETERIA, PRINCIPAL, ERASER, SEMESTER and COUNSELOR, but PUPIL sits beside STUDENT. SCISSORS and COMPASS are often misspelled, which makes them good words to practise.
The timer pauses when the tab is hidden, and School stats (played, won, win rate, best and average time) stay in this browser. The first two hints are free; once ads are enabled, more cost a short ad or a 30-second wait. Every grid has a code such as A7K3Q to replay or share, and the printable page makes school sheets.
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The list has 72. A 12×12 grid hides 12 and a 15×15 hides 18.
Yes. The printable page makes free PDF sheets with an optional solution page, or you can play it on a shared screen.
MATH, READING, WRITING, SPELLING, SCIENCE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, ART, MUSIC and DRAMA.
No chosen word may sit inside another chosen word, so each word has exactly one place to find it.
DICTIONARY, PROTRACTOR, PLAYGROUND and ASSIGNMENT, at ten letters each.
The mixed grid, with words from all twenty themes.
Seventy-two careers, from VET to PHOTOGRAPHER.
Atoms, cells, elements and the lab bench.
Any theme as a PDF, with a solution page.
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Small cross-sum grids with pencil marks.
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