Hard pirates word search
Jolly Roger, doubloons and a parrot: twenty-eight pirate words for older crew members. The grid is eighteen by eighteen, and words can hide backwards or on the diagonal.
- Bandana
- Barnacle
- Buccaneer
- Buried treasure
- Cabin boy
- Cannonball
- Cutlass
- Deckhand
- Desert island
- Doubloon
- First mate
- Galleon
- Hammock
- Jolly Roger
- Lookout
- Mutiny
- Parrot
- Peg leg
- Plank
- Porthole
- Quartermaster
- Rigging
- Scallywag
- Sea shanty
- Shipwreck
- Spyglass
- Stowaway
- Treasure map
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| R | E | T | A | M | T | S | R | I | F | F | I | N | B | C | I | T | E |
| L | U | T | N | E | L | O | H | T | R | O | P | D | G | V | A | M | P |
| G | O | E | M | U | T | I | N | Y | X | G | N | I | G | G | I | R | M |
| E | T | O | E | M | R | N | C | H | S | H | I | P | W | R | E | C | K |
| L | B | C | U | T | L | A | S | S | M | S | S | A | L | G | Y | P | S |
| G | I | U | L | S | E | L | P | L | A | N | K | C | O | M | M | A | H |
| E | T | P | R | E | T | S | A | M | R | E | T | R | A | U | Q | R | S |
| P | G | G | V | I | T | O | A | B | F | N | Y | E | N | H | B | F | E |
| N | A | A | A | L | E | P | W | O | N | L | O | O | K | O | U | T | A |
| O | W | M | W | L | F | D | Y | A | L | O | E | N | G | F | C | H | S |
| O | X | R | E | Y | L | X | T | O | W | E | N | I | H | R | C | B | H |
| L | O | M | R | R | L | E | J | R | B | A | L | N | S | N | A | A | A |
| B | E | D | T | P | U | L | O | A | E | N | Y | C | A | W | N | N | N |
| U | N | A | P | O | A | S | A | N | R | A | I | E | A | C | E | D | T |
| O | I | D | O | N | G | R | A | C | H | E | S | B | A | N | E | A | Y |
| D | N | A | L | S | I | T | R | E | S | E | D | U | A | F | R | N | S |
| N | S | T | H | I | G | X | O | O | R | S | F | G | R | C | A | A | O |
| D | N | A | H | K | C | E | D | I | T | T | C | H | U | E | I | H | B |
Find these words
- Bandana
- Barnacle
- Buccaneer
- Buried treasure
- Cabin boy
- Cannonball
- Cutlass
- Deckhand
- Desert island
- Doubloon
- First mate
- Galleon
- Hammock
- Jolly Roger
- Lookout
- Mutiny
- Parrot
- Peg leg
- Plank
- Porthole
- Quartermaster
- Rigging
- Scallywag
- Sea shanty
- Shipwreck
- Spyglass
- Stowaway
- Treasure map
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About this word search
The Quartermaster on a pirate ship often had real power, sharing out food and treasure and settling disputes among the crew. Mutiny and Shipwreck have an Australian link as well: the Dutch ship Batavia was wrecked off the coast of Western Australia in 1629, and its survivors were caught up in a violent mutiny.
These words lurk in any direction, reversed spellings and diagonals included. Quartermaster is the longest, and its Q is a giveaway. Look also for the double C in Buccaneer and the double O in Doubloon. Jolly Roger and Buried treasure appear as single strings.
Older students might use the list to write a ship's log for a voyage that goes wrong.
Ways to use this word search
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Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.
Try it in Spanish too
The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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