Alphabet Word Search
The English alphabet has twenty six letters, five of which are usually counted as vowels. The letter names fill the grid, so the search moves fast once you settle in.
Alphabet word search (Easy)
Find these 10 words
10 words, across and down only
- abc
- alphabet
- capital
- letters
- lower case
- order
- sound
- spelling
- vowel
Alphabet word search (Medium)
Find these 15 words
15 words, adds diagonals
- abc
- alphabet
- capital
- consonant
- cursive
- letters
- lower case
- order
- phonics
- sound
- spelling
- syllable
- upper case
- vowel
Alphabet word search (Hard)
Find these 20 words
20 words, any direction, backwards too
- abc
- alphabet
- beginning sound
- capital
- consonant
- cursive
- letters
- lower case
- order
- phonics
- rhyme
- sequence
- sound
- spelling
- syllable
- tracing
- upper case
- vowel
- word
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Words in the Alphabet word search
Every word used across the three levels, with a quick note on what it means.
- letters
- The twenty six symbols that make up the alphabet
- vowel
- The letters a, e, i, o and u
- capital
- The large form of a letter, used to begin names
- lower case
- The small form of a letter, used in most writing
- abc
- The first three letters, often used to mean the alphabet
- sound
- What a letter says when it is spoken
- Writing letters separately rather than joined
- order
- The fixed sequence letters follow from a to z
- spelling
- Putting letters in the right order to make a word
- alphabet
- The full set of letters used to write a language
- consonant
- Any letter that is not counted as a vowel
- syllable
- A word part with one vowel sound
- phonics
- Teaching reading by matching letters to sounds
- upper case
- Another name for capital letters
- cursive
- Handwriting where letters are joined together
- tracing
- Following a printed letter shape with a pencil
- word
- Letters grouped together to carry meaning
- rhyme
- Words that end with the same sound
- sequence
- The order things follow, as letters do in the alphabet
- beginning sound
- The first sound heard in a spoken word
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