Planets Word Search

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This one goes wider than the eight planets. Alongside Mercury, Venus, Earth and the rest you will find the dwarf planets - Ceres, Pluto, Eris, Haumea and Makemake - plus bright stars like Altair, Arcturus and Canopus that people have navigated by for centuries.

Pluto was reclassified in 2006 for one reason: it has not cleared its orbital neighborhood. It is still round, still orbits the Sun, and is still there - only the category changed. Ceres went the other way, promoted from asteroid to dwarf planet in the same vote.

Names follow rules. Planets and most moons are Roman and Greek gods, dwarf planets take deities from further afield - Haumea is Hawaiian, Makemake is Rapa Nui - and asteroids can be named after almost anyone, which is why there is one called Rocknroll.

The free PDF suits a space unit. Online, a fresh grid comes up on every attempt.

Free Planets Word Search Online Game

Play the Planets word search in your browser, on your own or head to head against a friend in real time. Nothing to install and no account needed – send someone the link and you are both looking at the same grid.

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Planets 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 Planets word search page to see all three together, generate a fresh grid, and check the full word list.

Puzzle Vocabulary Words

Below you can see all possible words that the topic Planets 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.

• Akrux
• Altair
• Arcturus
• Asteroid
• Canopus
• Ceres
• Comet
• Earth
• Eris
• Haumea
• Jupiter
• Makemake
• Mars
• Mercury
• Mimosa
• Moon
• Neptune
• Pluto
• Saturn
• Sun
• Uranus
• Vega
• Venus