Whirlwind WordSearch

Whirlwind WordSearch is an easy-to-use and powerful word search puzzle maker. It helps you create uniquely engaging word search puzzles from your own lists of words in many different shapes, sizes and languages. It quietly removes any accidentally created "naughty words", and lets you easily save puzzles for publishing in your books, blogs or newsletters. It is not just a pretty puzzle though, underneath is a powerful puzzle-generator. You will be building and printing professional-looking puzzles right away. All of this for one price... no monthly fees, no extra upgrade costs. Ever.

Heres a list of features that make Whirlwind WordSearch an outstanding puzzle-generator.

• Easily customize your puzzles, choosing different colors, fonts, and sizes for the puzzle letters and titles. Choose to draw cell grid lines or not, or just draw an outline around the puzzle.
• Choose from many built-in puzzle shapes: Square, Circle, Bow-tie, Rectangle Tall/Wide, Heart, Diamond, Pinwheel, X, UL-Wedge, LL-Wedge, UR-Wedge, LR-Wedge, Square-hole, Donut, Checkers, Crescent, Plus-sign, Right-Arrow, Left-Arrow, Up-Arrow, Down-Arrow, Up-Triangle, Down-Triangle, Cross, Onion Dome, 4-Clover, Square-Peg, Round-Hole, Mushroom, Oval-Easy, Oval-Up, Trapezoid, Pentagon, Hexagon, Octagon, 4-star, 5-star, 6-star, Chevron-Up, Chevron-Down, Chevron-Left, Chevron-Right, Rainbow-up, Rainbow-down.
• Create puzzles ranging in size from 4-by-4 up to 50-by-50 letters (thats a lot of words!)
• Create puzzles with words in English, Numbers (Arabic), Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese-Hiragana, Japanese-Katakana, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit-Latin, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Welsh.
• Export high-quality puzzles and answer keys to a number of different file formats, ready for web, newsletter, worksheet, book, or other publication: PDF, PNG, JPEG, SVG, or Text.
• All created puzzles are yours! Publish and make money with them… there are no copyright restrictions or restrictive “commercial use” clauses!
• Show "word clue" phrases instead of the words themselves, to make puzzles even more challenging.
• Add a "secret message" into your puzzle, which will be inserted between your words as a secondary puzzle to solve.
• Add "hidden words" into your puzzle that are not shown in the word list or answer key (for adding copyrights or extra credit words.)
• You can use compound-words (Blue Jay), words with apostrophes (OHara), or use entire phrases (May The Force Be With You).
• Extend the built-in naughty word list with your own extra words, which will be removed from any puzzles if found in the random letters.
• Add your own "permanent hidden words", which will always be added to any word search puzzles you make. Perfect for adding your name or company name as a "watermark" to all your puzzles.
• Pour lots of words into your word list and make them "optional." Whirlwind WordSearch will automatically figure out how to make a puzzle from as many words as it can and tell you which ones it left out.
• Whirlwind automatically finds and removes randomly-generated "naughty" words in any of your chosen languages.
• Supports Dark Mode and Full-Screen mode.
• Work without a net... you never need an internet connection to create, save, and print your puzzles.
• Save your puzzle files, and open them again later to instantly create whole new puzzles, or share them with other Whirlwind WordSearch users.
• Comprehensive User Guide contains 50+ pages of tutorials and tips and describes every option, getting you up-to-speed right away. Advanced features are explained, helping you create high-quality and uniquely personalized puzzles.