Halloween Word Search

Get ready for October 31 with a free Halloween word search. Every puzzle is new: find pumpkins, ghosts, witches, bats and other spooky words hidden in the grid. Play online on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the puzzle for a class or a Halloween party.

✅ How to play

1. Choose a level. Easy is good for kids: 8 words in a 10 × 10 grid, only across and down. Medium adds diagonal words, and Hard hides 12 words in any direction, even backwards.
2. Find a word from the list and drag across it from the first letter to the last. On a phone, you can also tap the first letter and then the last one.
3. Found words are crossed out in the list. The timer shows how long the whole puzzle took you.
4. Press “New puzzle” for another set of Halloween words.

✅ Printable Halloween word search

Press “Print” to get the puzzle on a page with the word list and lines for a name and date: ready for school, a party table or a quiet evening. “Answer key” prints the same puzzle with all the words marked. Want your own words, for example the names of your trick-or-treat team? Turn them into a puzzle with the Word Search Maker.

✅ Halloween words in the puzzles

Autumn, bat, black, bones, boo, broom, broomstick, candle, candy, cape, cat, cauldron, cemetery, chocolate, cobweb, coffin, costume, creature, creepy, crow, decorations, Dracula, eerie, fangs, fog, Frankenstein, fright, ghost, ghoul, goblin, graveyard, harvest, hat, haunted, hayride, howl, lantern, leaves, lollipop, magic, mask, midnight, monster, moon, moonlight, mummy, night, October, orange, owl, party, phantom, potion, pumpkin, raven, scarecrow, scary, scream, shadow, skeleton, skull, spell, spider, spirit, spooky, sweets, tombstone, treat, trick, vampire, wand, werewolf, witch, wizard, zombie.

More holiday puzzles: Thanksgiving Word Search and Christmas Word Search. The Free Word Search has 18 other themes, from animals to space, and Hangman also has a Halloween theme. For a quick word game, play Wordle Unlimited.