Volume I Word Lab: 880 Everyday Nouns, and Dozens You Already Know
Play a real puzzle from Word Search Librito Volume I, flip through its trickiest nouns, take a 5-question quiz and sample 20 word pairs.
Here’s a secret about Word Search Librito Volume I: you already know a lot of it. Nearly 50 of its word pairs are spelled exactly the same in English and Spanish (idea, radio, chocolate, animal), and about four in ten look so much alike that you can guess them on sight.
That’s on purpose. Volume I is The Classic Starter: 880 everyday and workplace nouns, the words you see on signs, menus, forms and job sites. Familiar words build confidence, so the unfamiliar ones (préstamo, cinturón, humo) have room to stick.
What’s inside
- 80 puzzles, 11 English–Spanish pairs in each: 22 words to find.
- 17 × 15 letter grids. Words run forward only: across, down and diagonally. Nothing hides backwards.
- Nouns, nouns, nouns. Places, objects, jobs, money, time and the workplace.
- No themes on purpose. Each puzzle mixes topics, so every page feels new.
Play a puzzle from the book
Here are eight pairs from Puzzle 41 of Volume I. Find the English and the Spanish word for each pair.
Puzzle 41
Drag from the first letter to the last, or tap the first letter and then the last. Find the English and the Spanish words.
- Organization Organización
- Loan Préstamo
- Pot Maceta
- Medicine Medicamento
- Performance Actuación
- Initiative Iniciativa
- Judgment Juicio
- Belt Cinturón
Keyboard: arrow keys to move, Enter on the first and last letter.
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Flip cards: the words with a story
Eight nouns worth remembering
Say the answer out loud, then tap the card to check.
Quick quiz
How well do you know Volume I?
Try it at home or in a group
- Cognate race. Set a two-minute timer. Who can circle the most look-alike words (conexión, minuto, sector)?
- Noun charades. Pull five nouns from a finished puzzle and act them out. The guesser answers in the other language.
- Sign spotting. Words like salida, llegada and precio are everywhere. Snap a photo when you see one in the wild.
Volume I - The Classic Starter
Best for: Adult schools, beginner-friendly searches, libraries
Vocabulary & topics: Everyday and workplace nouns, including some adult topics: alcohol and tobacco (Beer, Wine, Cigarette), relationships (Affair, Kiss), and illness, death and war.
- Solving
- Easy
- Vocabulary
- Moderate
- Puzzles
- 80
- Grid
- 17 × 15
- Size
- 6 × 9 in
A taste of the vocabulary
20 words from the book
Every word from the book used on this page, grouped by theme. Hide the Spanish and test yourself.
In the puzzle
- OrganizationOrganización
- LoanPréstamo
- PotMaceta
- MedicineMedicamento
- PerformanceActuación
- InitiativeIniciativa
- JudgmentJuicio
- BeltCinturón
On the cards and in the quiz
- ArrivalLlegada
- ChoiceElección
- ElectionElección
- FilmPelícula
- MinuteMinuto
- MoviePelícula
- NoteNota
- SmokeHumo
- TruthVerdad
- VegetableVerdura
- WeightPeso
- WordPalabra
Ready for verbs and adjectives? Volume II picks up right where Volume I leaves off.
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