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
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionPirates, extra hard
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| 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 |
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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
A Sea shanty is a work song that sailors sang to keep time while hauling on ropes. A Stowaway hides on board without paying, a Lookout watches for land or danger from high up, and Mutiny is what happens when the crew turns against the captain.
This eighteen by eighteen board lets words run backwards and diagonally as well as straight. Buried treasure and Quartermaster are good starting points. Then look for rare letters: the Q in Quartermaster, the W in Shipwreck, Stowaway and Scallywag, or the Y in Spyglass.
Older children could write a ship's log for one day at sea, using at least five words from the list, from the first Barnacle scraped off the hull to the last Cannonball fired.
Ways to use this word search
In the classroom
Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, students check their own answers.
At home and on the go
Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or a family vacation. A pen is all you need, no screen required.
Play together
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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