Free Printable Cars Word Search
For car-mad kids, adults, and auto-shop or driver's-ed classes. Beyond WHEEL and HORN, the list names the parts under the hood: CAMSHAFT, ALTERNATOR, CARBURETOR, CRANKSHAFT, TRANSMISSION. Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 71 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 71 words.
How the cars words fit each size
70 of the 71 cars words fit the 11 × 11 easy grid. TRANSMISSION is too long for it, so it only turns up on the 15 × 15 medium and 19 × 19 hard grids.
22 words have five letters or fewer, CAB, OIL and RIM among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, TRANSMISSION, ACCELERATOR and CONVERTIBLE, are the last to be found.
A way to use the cars word search
Give it to a young passenger on a long road trip, then play a follow-up game: spot something on the road for each circled word, a SEDAN, a PICKUP, a LIMOUSINE.
All 71 words in the cars list
- ACCELERATOR
- AIRBAG
- ALTERNATOR
- ANTIFREEZE
- AUTOMOBILE
- AXLE
- BATTERY
- BRAKE
- BUMPER
- CAMSHAFT
- CARBURETOR
- CHASSIS
- CHAUFFEUR
- CLUTCH
- CONVERTIBLE
- COOLANT
- COUPE
- CRANKSHAFT
- DASHBOARD
- DEALERSHIP
- DIESEL
- DOOR
- DRIVESHAFT
- ENGINE
- EXHAUST
- FENDER
- FUEL
- GARAGE
- GASOLINE
- GEAR
- HATCHBACK
- HEADLIGHT
- HIGHWAY
- HOOD
- HORN
- HORSEPOWER
- HYBRID
- IGNITION
- LIMOUSINE
- MECHANIC
- MINIVAN
- MIRROR
- MUFFLER
- PASSENGER
- PEDAL
- PICKUP
- RADIATOR
- SEATBELT
- SEDAN
- SKID
- SPEEDOMETER
- STEERING
- SUNROOF
- SUSPENSION
- TAILLIGHT
- THROTTLE
- TIRE
- TORQUE
- TRAFFIC
- TRUCK
- TRUNK
- TURBO
- VALVE
- WAGON
- WHEEL
- WINDSHIELD
- TRANSMISSION
- OIL
- CAB
- RIM
- TOW
Printing and the answer key
Print hides the controls; the PNG is rendered at 3× so letters stay crisp, and the answer key saves under its own filename. Need a whole book of these at KDP trim? KDP Creator builds the pages.
