Free Printable Winter Word Scramble

A cold-weather list for December through February: snow words (BLIZZARD, SNOWDRIFT, FLURRIES, WHITEOUT), winter sports (LUGE, CURLING, TOBOGGAN) and staying warm (EARMUFFS, PARKA, COCOA). Answer key on every sheet, and a fresh set of jumbled words from the same 63-word list each time you press the button.

Building your puzzle…

Free and unlimited, no account. Every puzzle is built in your browser from the 63-word winter list, so the same page gives a different sheet each time you press New puzzle.

How the winter words split by difficulty

Easy asks for 15 words of 3 to 6 letters and this list has 30, for example ARCTIC, PARKA and WOOL.

Medium asks for 18 words of 5 to 9 letters and this list has 47, for example AVALANCHE, MITTENS and WINTER.

Hard asks for 20 words of 7 to 12 letters and this list has 33, for example ANTIFREEZE, JANUARY and WINDCHILL.

A way to use the winter word scramble

Use it as a January morning-meeting warm-up: one scrambled word on the board each day, IGLOO or MITTENS or SLED, solved before the register.

All 63 words in the winter list

  • ICE
  • ICY
  • SKI
  • ANTIFREEZE
  • ARCTIC
  • AVALANCHE
  • BLIZZARD
  • BOOTS
  • CHAIRLIFT
  • COAT
  • COCOA
  • COLD
  • CURLING
  • DECEMBER
  • EARMUFFS
  • EVERGREEN
  • FEBRUARY
  • FIREPLACE
  • FIREWOOD
  • FLEECE
  • FLURRIES
  • FREEZING
  • FROSTBITE
  • FROZEN
  • GLOVES
  • HIBERNATION
  • HOCKEY
  • HYPOTHERMIA
  • ICICLE
  • IGLOO
  • JANUARY
  • LUGE
  • MITTENS
  • PARKA
  • POLAR
  • PUCK
  • RINK
  • SCARF
  • SHIVERING
  • SHOVEL
  • SKATE
  • SLED
  • SLEET
  • SLEIGH
  • SLUSH
  • SNOWBALL
  • SNOWBOARD
  • SNOWDRIFT
  • SNOWFLAKE
  • SNOWMAN
  • SNOWMOBILE
  • SNOWSHOES
  • SNOWSTORM
  • SNOWY
  • SUBZERO
  • SWEATER
  • THAW
  • TOBOGGAN
  • TURTLENECK
  • WHITEOUT
  • WINDCHILL
  • WINTER
  • WOOL

Printing and the answer key

Print with answers off, then press Answers and print again so the key is a separate sheet. The PNG is rendered at 3× and the answer file saves under its own name. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.

Want your own words instead of the winter list? Paste a spelling or vocabulary list into the word scramble generator and it builds the same kind of sheet, with a word bank and first-letter hints if you want them.

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