Free Printable Occupations Word Search
For career-day weeks and early-years "people who help us" topics. The list spans familiar jobs (BAKER, NURSE, FARMER, PILOT) and less obvious ones (GEOLOGIST, AUDITOR, PUBLISHER, SCULPTOR). Answer key included, and New puzzle lays out a different grid from the same 64 words every time.
Free and unlimited, no account. Press “New puzzle” for a different grid from the same 64 words.
How the occupations words fit each size
63 of the 64 occupations words fit the 11 × 11 easy grid. PHOTOGRAPHER is too long for it, so it only turns up on the 15 × 15 medium and 19 × 19 hard grids.
9 words have five letters or fewer, CHEF, POET and ACTOR among them, and those are the first ones young solvers spot. The longest, PHOTOGRAPHER, ELECTRICIAN and ACCOUNTANT, are the last to be found.
A way to use the occupations word search
Ask each child to circle the job they would most like to try, then draw themselves doing it on the back of the sheet.
All 64 words in the occupations list
- PHOTOGRAPHER
- ACCOUNTANT
- ACTOR
- ANALYST
- ARCHITECT
- ARTIST
- ASTRONOMER
- AUDITOR
- BAKER
- BANKER
- BARBER
- BIOLOGIST
- BUILDER
- BUTCHER
- CARPENTER
- CHEF
- CHEMIST
- CLERK
- COACH
- CONSULTANT
- DANCER
- DESIGNER
- DEVELOPER
- DIRECTOR
- DOCTOR
- DRIVER
- EDITOR
- ELECTRICIAN
- ENGINEER
- FARMER
- FISHERMAN
- FLORIST
- GARDENER
- GEOLOGIST
- GUIDE
- HUNTER
- JANITOR
- JEWELER
- JOURNALIST
- LAWYER
- MANAGER
- MECHANIC
- NURSE
- PAINTER
- PHYSICIST
- PILOT
- PLUMBER
- POET
- POLICE
- PROGRAMMER
- PUBLISHER
- REFEREE
- SAILOR
- SCIENTIST
- SCULPTOR
- SECRETARY
- SINGER
- SOLDIER
- TAILOR
- TEACHER
- TECHNICIAN
- TRAINER
- WAITER
- WRITER
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.
