Christmas Word Search
By Reggie J·Updated
Christmas word search puzzles made for a calm December evening. Our free online grids lean into evergreen trees, winter lights, cocoa, carols and quiet snow — written for adults and older teens, not for noisy kids apps. Start with an easy puzzle, try a medium grid with diagonals, or settle into a hard puzzle with reverse words. There is no timer and no account required. Bookmark the theme page and return through the season for more Christmas word searches that stay gentle, readable and free of licensed characters.
Christmas puzzles
easy · 10×10 · 10 words
Easy Christmas Word Search
medium · 12×12 · 14 words
Medium Christmas Word Search
hard · 15×15 · 18 words
Hard Christmas Word Search
What words are in the Christmas word search?
Our Christmas list is about the quiet parts of December: wreaths, carols, cocoa, candles, garlands, holly and ivy, icicles and the winter solstice. It avoids trademarked characters and keeps religious and secular words in a gentle balance.
The full Christmas word bank has 40 words. Each puzzle picks a set from this list, so no two grids are quite the same:
ADVENT · ANGEL · BELLS · BLANKET · CANDLE · CAROL · CHIMNEY · CHURCH · COCOA · EVERGREEN · FAMILY · FEAST · FIREPLACE · FROST · GARLAND · GATHER · GINGERBREAD · HOLLY · ICICLE · IVY · LIGHTS · MIDNIGHT · MISTLETOE · MUFFLER · NOEL · ORNAMENT · POINSETTIA · PRESENT · RIBBON · SLEIGH · SNOWFLAKE · SNOWMAN · SOLSTICE · STAR · STOCKING · TABLE · TINSEL · WINTER · WREATH · YULE
Who is this theme good for?
It works well for family afternoons, holiday activity sheets for adults, and calm evenings by the fire. Grids range from a 10×10 easy puzzle to a 15×15 hard puzzle where words can run backwards and diagonally upwards.
A solving tip
Several Christmas words contain double letters — HOLLY, BELLS and GINGERBREAD. Scan for “LL” and “EE” pairs first; they jump out of a grid quickly.
How these puzzles work
Every puzzle is free and plays in your browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Drag across a word, or tap its first and last letter. Easy grids are 10×10 with words across and down; medium grids are 12×12 and add diagonals; hard grids are 15×15 with words in all eight directions. Press Large print above any grid for bigger letters. Progress is saved on your device, and there is never a timer. New to word searches? Read how to play.
