Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.
A few of the words
- COLOSSAL
- Colossal comes from the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, a statue so enormous that ships reportedly sailed between its legs, though that detail is almost certainly legend.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- MAMMOTH
- Mammoth entered English as a word for "enormous" because of the woolly mammoth, the Ice Age giant whose frozen remains were uncovered in Siberia and left early explorers searching for superlatives.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- IMMENSE
- Immense traces back to the Latin "immensus", literally "un-measured", capturing the idea of something so large it defies any attempt to take its full measure.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
- GRAND
- Grand has done double duty for centuries, describing both physical size and social importance, the Grand Canyon and a grand piano both borrow the same quiet confidence from Old French "grant."Find this word in the grid to read its note.
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Big Words: a free large-print word search
Big words word search, free and large-print, celebrating every bold, sweeping synonym for large, from vast to colossal.
About Big Words
The English language has always had an appetite for scale. From the Old English "micel" giving way to "great," to the Latin-rooted "immense" and "colossal," writers and poets have reached for the grandest word available when ordinary size simply wouldn't do. Each synonym carries its own flavor, vast suggests open space, mighty implies force, and mammoth conjures something ancient and almost impossible to believe.
How to play
- 1Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
- 2Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
- 3It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
- 4Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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