Louisiana word search word list

13 words, hand-picked to fit a 15×15 grid. Free to use in any puzzle you make, including ones you sell.

The button opens the free generator with this theme selected. It draws 15 words per puzzle and can make 1 different puzzles from this list without repeating a set — a 1-puzzle book comes to 10 pages at 6 × 9.

The list

• Batonrouge
• Bayou
• Crawfish
• Creole
• Cypress
• Frenchquarter
• Gumbo
• Jazz
• Magnolia
• Mardigras
• Neworleans
• Pelican
• Zydeco

Copy freely. One per line or comma-separated pastes straight into the generator's "Your own list" box if you want to add or remove words.

Crossword clues for every word

The same list with a plain-language clue for each word — written for the crossword type, and free to use in a grid you build yourself. Copy the lines as they are (word — clue) into the generator's own-list box and it makes the crossword for you.

• Batonrouge — Capital of Louisiana, French for 'red stick'
• Bayou — Slow-moving Louisiana waterway often lined with cypress trees, common in wetland areas
• Crawfish — Louisiana crustacean central to Cajun cooking, boiled whole with spicy seasoning
• Creole — Louisiana culture and cuisine blending French, African, Spanish, and Caribbean influences
• Cypress — Wetland tree with knobby above-ground roots, common in Southern swamps and bayous
• Frenchquarter — New Orleans' oldest neighborhood, known for colonial architecture and jazz clubs
• Gumbo — Louisiana stew thickened with okra or roux, a Cajun and Creole culinary staple
• Jazz — Improvised music born in New Orleans
• Magnolia — Tree with big waxy blooms
• Mardigras — Pre-Lenten carnival with parades and beads, first held in America in Mobile, Alabama
• Neworleans — Louisiana's largest city, founded by the French in 1718 along the Mississippi River
• Pelican — Sea bird with a pouch under its beak
• Zydeco — Louisiana Creole music blending blues, R&B, and folk, played with accordion and washboard

A puzzle made from it

Medium difficulty: across, down and diagonals, nothing backwards. Every word appears exactly once — the generator checks the finished grid rather than assuming. Solutions are in the book, not on this page.