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Christmas Carols Word Search
11 words · 11×11 grid
How to play: click (or tap) the first letter, drag to the last letter, then release. Words go in any direction, including backwards. Or download the PDF to solve on paper.
Find these words
HARK. TIDINGS. YULETIDE. Half the words in a carol survive nowhere else in modern English, kept alive one week a year by people singing sentences they would never otherwise say. NOEL, HERALD, GLORIA, REJOICE. The grid is a small museum of the language of Christmas songs, words that only come out in December.
A word find puzzle and a word search are the same thing. What changes from sheet to sheet is the list, and this list is christmas carols.
Frequently asked questions
What does hark mean?
It is an old command to listen, now almost extinct outside the opening of one very famous carol.
What are tidings?
News or announcements, usually good ones, from a root related to the modern word tidy and the idea of the right time.
