Digraphs Word Search
Two letters, one sound: this digraphs word search holds forty words built on a letter pair, shell and brush for sh, cheese and lunch for ch, teeth and moth for th, wheel for wh, graph for ph and snack for ck.
Several of these pairs exist because the Roman alphabet had no single letter for the sound. Old English wrote ship as scip, with sc. It wrote wh the other way round, so white was hwit and wheel was hweol, and scribes after the Norman Conquest flipped the pair to wh. The ph in graph, photo and trophy marks a word borrowed from Greek, where it stood for the single letter phi.
One digraph can carry more than one sound. Th is voiced in feather and this, where the throat buzzes, and unvoiced in thorn and teeth, where only air comes out. Ch says k in Greek words like chorus and sh in French words like chef. And ck has a strict job: it follows a short vowel at the end of a short word, as in snack, brick and stick, while a long vowel is spelled with a plain k, as in snake and like.
Free Digraphs Word Search Online Game
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Digraphs Word Search Printable Puzzles
Three sheets to choose from, free to print or download as a PDF. Pick a difficulty below, or open the printable Digraphs word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.
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Hard
15x15 grid, up to 23 hidden words
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Medium
12x12 grid, up to 15 hidden words
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Easy
10x10 grid, 5 words across and down
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
Below you can see all possible words that the topic Digraphs has.
Depends on difficulty level you select in the game amount of words hidden in the puzzle will be different.
In Easy game you have to find up to 5 words, medium game can have up to 15 words and hard puzzle can have up to 23 words.
Every time you start a new game - our word search generator will pick random words to build the puzzle.
- Bench
- Brick
- Brush
- Chalk
- Cheese
- Cherry
- Chick
- Cloth
- Couch
- Dish
- Elephant
- Gopher
- Graph
- Lunch
- Moth
- Nephew
- Path
- Peach
- Photo
- Pickle
- Quack
- Rocket
- Shark
- Shell
- Shovel
- Shrimp
- Snack
- Splash
- Stick
- Teeth
- Thirty
- Thorn
- Throne
- Trophy
- Wheat
- Wheel
- Whip
- Whisker
- Whisper
- White