Michigan word search word list

15 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

• Apple
• Blossom
• Dearborn
• Detroit
• Ford
• Greatlakes
• Lansing
• Lions
• Mackinac
• Motown
• Pine
• Redwings
• Robin
• Tigers
• Wolverine

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.

• Apple — Fruit that keeps the doctor away
• Blossom — Flowers on a fruit tree
• Dearborn — Michigan city that is home to Ford's world headquarters
• Detroit — Michigan's largest city, historic center of the auto industry
• Ford — Automaker founded by Henry, headquartered near Detroit
• Greatlakes — Freshwater seas that give this state one of its nicknames
• Lansing — Michigan's capital city
• Lions — Detroit's NFL football team
• Mackinac — Straits and island linking Michigan's two peninsulas
• Motown — Detroit record label that shaped American soul and pop music
• Pine — Evergreen with needles
• Redwings — Detroit's NHL hockey team
• Robin — Migratory red-breasted songbird, a common state symbol
• Tigers — Detroit's Major League Baseball team
• Wolverine — Fierce weasel-family animal that gives this state one of its nicknames

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.