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Pirates word search

The treasure chest, the parrot and the wooden leg: twenty pirate words, from the anchor and the cannon to the cutlass, for a dressing-up party or a treasure hunt in class.

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  • Anchor
  • Cannon
  • Captain
  • Chest
  • Compass
  • Crows nest
  • Cutlass
  • Eye patch
  • Flag
  • Gold
  • Island
  • Map
  • Parrot
  • Pirate
  • Sail
  • Sea
  • Ship
  • Treasure
  • Wheel
  • Wooden leg

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Pirates

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Find these words

  • Anchor
  • Cannon
  • Captain
  • Chest
  • Compass
  • Crows nest
  • Cutlass
  • Eye patch
  • Flag
  • Gold
  • Island
  • Map
  • Parrot
  • Pirate
  • Sail
  • Sea
  • Ship
  • Treasure
  • Wheel
  • Wooden leg

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About this word search

The Crows nest is the lookout platform high on the mast, a cold and windy place to keep watch. Eye patch, Wooden leg and Parrot belong more to stories than to history, but they make a pirate easy to picture.

Treasure and Captain are long and good starting points. Crows nest and Eye patch lose their spaces. The fourteen-square grid has words across, down and diagonally, and not one of them reversed.

For a pirate party, the puzzle works well as one station on a treasure hunt. Draw a Map of the garden afterwards and mark an X where the Chest is hidden.

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, pupils check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. 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 English (New Zealand) too

The same theme also exists in English (New Zealand), Spanish, French, and German, 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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