Arabic crossword puzzles
A new Arabic crossword every time you play: pick a 5×5 or 7×7 grid and Easy, Medium or Hard, then fill in the Arabic answers from Arabic clues. Hints, a mistake check and a shareable puzzle link are built in, and it all runs in your browser — no account.
Play the Arabic crossword
Some letters are filled in, wrong letters are marked as you type, and hints are unlimited.
Across (right to left)
Down
Click a square or a clue, then type. Arrow keys move, Space switches across/down, Enter goes to the next clue (Shift+Enter the previous one), Backspace deletes, and Tab leaves the grid.
When on, the letters most often swapped when typing quickly are accepted:
- ا also counts for أ إ آ ٱ
- ي also counts for ى ئ
- و also counts for ؤ
- ه also counts for ة
Turn it off to require the exact spelling. Either way, the finished grid shows the correct spelling of every answer.
كلمات متقاطعة عربية
شبكة جديدة في كل جولة بحجم 5×5 أو 7×7، تعريفاتها وإجاباتها بالعربية، وبثلاثة مستويات: سهل ومتوسط وصعب.
طريقة اللعب
- اختر مربعًا أو تعريفًا ثم اكتب الإجابة. الكلمات الأفقية تُكتب من اليمين إلى اليسار، والعمودية من الأعلى إلى الأسفل.
- استخدم الحروف المعروضة على الشاشة أو لوحة مفاتيحك للكتابة. إذا كانت لوحة مفاتيحك بحروف لاتينية، يكتب كل مفتاح الحرف العربي المقابل لموضعه.
- مفتاح المسافة يبدّل الاتجاه، وEnter ينقلك إلى التعريف التالي، وTab يُخرجك من الشبكة.
- في المستوى السهل، تظهر بعض الحروف مسبقًا، وتظهر الأخطاء أثناء الكتابة، والتلميحات غير محدودة. في المستوى المتوسط لديك ثلاثة تلميحات، وفي المستوى الصعب تلميح واحد.
- تُقبل افتراضيًا حروف متقاربة مثل «ه» بدل «ة» و«ا» بدل «أ»، لكن الشبكة المكتملة تعرض الإملاء الصحيح لكل إجابة، ويمكنك إلغاء هذا الخيار.
- شارك رابط الشبكة ليفتح الآخرون الشبكة نفسها، من دون إجاباتك.
How to play
- Choose a grid size and a difficulty. Changing either starts a new puzzle.
- Click a square, or a clue in the list. The clue bar above the grid shows the current clue and how many letters it needs.
- Type the answer. Across answers run from right to left, as Arabic is read; down answers run from top to bottom. The cursor moves to the next square by itself.
- Press Space (or “Switch direction”) to change between across and down where two answers cross, and Enter to jump to the next unfinished clue.
- Stuck? A hint fills in one correct letter; Check marks wrong letters on Medium and Hard; Show solution ends the puzzle and fills in every answer.
Stars reward independence: three for a grid finished with no hints and no checks, one fewer for using Check, and one fewer for each of the first two hints — never fewer than one star for a finished grid.
Easy, Medium and Hard
The levels differ in how much help you get and in the words they use. A 5×5 grid holds five to seven answers; a 7×7 grid about ten to twelve.
| Level | Letters given at the start | Hints | Checking | Typical words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | About a quarter of the letters | Unlimited | Wrong letters are marked as you type | Home, animals, food, colours, numbers |
| Medium | About one letter in ten | 3 | Press Check when you want to | Jobs, nature, travel, seasons, school |
| Hard | None — an empty grid | 1 | Press Check when you want to | Capitals, rivers, astronomy, grammar, calligraphy |
Three example clues, one from each level:
| Level | Clue | Answer | In English |
|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | سفينة الصحراء | جمل | camel — “ship of the desert” |
| Medium | يصمم المباني والجسور | مهندس | engineer — “designs buildings and bridges” |
| Hard | صاحب «الكتاب» وإمام النحاة | سيبويه | Sibawayh — author of al-Kitāb, the great grammarian |
Spelling: what counts as correct
Answers are written the way a dictionary spells them, without short-vowel marks and without the article ال — so the Nile is نيل, not النيل. By default the grid also accepts the letters people most often swap when typing quickly: ا for أ, إ, آ or ٱ; ي for ى orئ; و for ؤ; and ه for ة. That lets you finish a grid, but it is not treated as the right spelling.
For example, if the answer is قطة (cat) and you type قطه, the square is accepted. When the grid is finished, every square switches to the dictionary spelling, and the answer list points out that you wrote ه where the spelling is ة. Untick “Accept common spelling variants” to require exact spelling from the start.
Typing Arabic letters
On a phone or tablet, use the Arabic letter pad under the grid. On a computer you can use the same pad, an Arabic keyboard layout you already have, or an ordinary Latin keyboard: each key types the letter at its position on the Arabic 101 layout — K types ن, H types ا, Shift+H types أ, and B types لا in two squares. The touch-typing course teaches those positions.
Arrow keys move around the grid and Backspace deletes. Tab always moves on to the next control, so you can leave the grid at any time.
Share a puzzle and privacy
Every grid has a puzzle number, kept in the address after the #. Copy the link and a friend opens exactly the same grid, size and level. The link holds only that number — never your answers — and browsers do not send the part after the # to our server.
The puzzle, your letters, the timer and the stars all stay in this browser tab. Nothing is stored on your device or sent anywhere, so your best time lasts only until you leave the page. There is no account and no analytics.
Common questions
Do I need to read Arabic well?
The clues are in Arabic. Easy uses everyday words with simple clues and starting letters; if you are still learning the alphabet, start with the adaptive letter game.
Is there an English translation of the clues?
Not inside the game — reading the Arabic clue is part of the challenge. The finished grid lists every answer with its clue.
How many different puzzles are there?
Each grid is generated from about 80 words per level, with up to 999,999 puzzle numbers for every size and level, so you will rarely see the same grid twice.
A clue looks wrong to me
Tell us through the contact page, with the puzzle number if you have it.
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