Internet Safety Word Search

An internet safety puzzle with its answer key, from Scam and Stranger to Footprint and Respect.

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Find every word hidden in the grid. Words go across and down.

0 of 16 words found

LBTDATPERSONALL

ADEZMDBLOCKUMVE

MFFPDOCHOURJHIN

EDOSINTERNETCRN

DGOMIWTPIGWTWUY

EBTLBAOONSNSHSW

TIPOEPASSWORDEH

EIRAPHISHINGARV

PRIVACYTXBRAONH

ERNSMALROBRHAAJ

TLTRVBBAAESCAMT

ONLINERNPYSAFEA

PRIVATEGKBSNLOD

CWGMMPRESPECTNC

XQUTPIOREPORTUU

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PasswordPASSWORD
PrivacyPRIVACY
PhishingPHISHING
UsernameUSERNAME
ReportREPORT
BlockBLOCK
PrivatePRIVATE
PersonalPERSONAL
ScamSCAM
VirusVIRUS
StrangerSTRANGER
SafeSAFE
InternetINTERNET
OnlineONLINE
FootprintFOOTPRINT
RespectRESPECT

16 of 24 words from the Internet Safety Key Terms list.

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Answer key: Internet Safety Word Search

LBTDATPERSONALL

ADEZMDBLOCKUMVE

MFFPDOCHOURJHIN

EDOSINTERNETCRN

DGOMIWTPIGWTWUY

EBTLBAOONSNSHSW

TIPOEPASSWORDEH

EIRAPHISHINGARV

PRIVACYTXBRAONH

ERNSMALROBRHAAJ

TLTRVBBAAESCAMT

ONLINERNPYSAFEA

PRIVATEGKBSNLOD

CWGMMPRESPECTNC

XQUTPIOREPORTUU

PASSWORD, PRIVACY, PHISHING, USERNAME, REPORT, BLOCK, PRIVATE, PERSONAL, SCAM, VIRUS, STRANGER, SAFE, INTERNET, ONLINE, FOOTPRINT, RESPECT

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All 141 words

Personal Information 19

Address The street and town where you live.
Age How many years old you are.
Birthday The date on which you were born.
Details Small facts about you, such as your street or your school.
Email A message sent over the internet to an inbox.
Family Parents, children and other relatives.
Hometown The town or city where you live or grew up.
Information Facts about a person or thing.
Location The place where you are; some apps can share it.
Name What you are called; your full one is personal information.
Number Your phone ___ is personal information.
Personal Belonging to one person, as your name, address and birthday do.
Phone A device for calls and texts; its number is personal information.
Photo A picture taken with a camera.
Private Not for everyone to see; the opposite of public.
School The place where you go to class; its name is personal information.
Secret Something kept hidden from others, as a password should be.
Selfie A photo you take of yourself.
Street A road in a town; the one you live on is part of your address.

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Passwords and Accounts 18

Account Your own space on a site or app, opened with a username and password.
Avatar A picture or cartoon figure that stands for you online.
Code A set of numbers or letters that unlocks a phone or an account.
Guess To give an answer without knowing; a good password is hard to do this to.
Lock To fasten shut; do this to a screen so that nobody else can open it.
Log out To sign off from an account so nobody else can use it.
Login The act of signing in to an account with a username and password.
Nickname A made-up or short name used in place of your real one.
Password A secret word or string of characters that lets you into an account.
Permission A yes from a parent or an owner before you do something.
Privacy Freedom from having others see your personal information.
Profile The page that tells others about a person on a site or app.
Screen The flat front of a device where words and pictures show.
Settings The menu where you choose who can see your posts and profile.
Strong Hard to guess, like a long password with letters, numbers and symbols.
Symbol A character such as # or ! that makes a password harder to guess.
Update A newer version of an app or system that fixes problems.
Username The name you type to sign in to an account.

Being Kind Online 22

Apologize To say you are sorry.
Bystander A person who sees something happen but takes no part in it.
Caps Capital letters; a message typed all in them reads like shouting.
Caring Showing that you want to help other people.
Comment A short note written under a post or video.
Cyberbullying Using phones or the internet to hurt, scare or embarrass someone.
Emoji A tiny picture, such as a smiling face, used in a message.
Empathy Understanding how another person feels.
Encourage To give someone hope or courage with kind words.
Feelings Emotions such as joy, sadness and anger.
Friend A person you know, like and trust.
Gossip Talk about other people's private lives.
Honest Telling the truth; not lying or tricking.
Kind Friendly and caring toward other people.
Manners Polite ways of behaving toward other people.
Netiquette Good manners for the internet: net plus etiquette.
Polite Having good manners.
Respect Care for the feelings and rights of other people.
Rumor A story passed from person to person that may not be true.
Tease To make fun of someone.
Troll A person who posts rude things online just to upset others.
Welcome To greet someone gladly and let them join in.

Online Tricks and Risks 19

Attachment A file sent along with an email.
Clickbait A headline or picture made to get you to click, often promising more than it gives.
Danger The chance that harm will happen.
Download To copy a file from the internet onto your device.
Fake Not real; made to fool people.
Hacker A person who breaks into computers or accounts without permission.
Hoax A trick meant to make people believe something false.
Link Words or a picture you click to jump to another page.
Malware Software made to harm a computer or steal from it.
Phishing Tricking people with fake emails or sites into giving up private information.
Pop-up A small window that jumps onto the screen without being asked for.
Prize Something won in a contest or game.
Scam A dishonest plan to trick people out of money or information.
Spam Unwanted messages sent to many people at once.
Stranger A person you do not know.
Suspicious Giving you a reason to think something is wrong.
Trick Something done to fool a person.
Virus A harmful program that copies itself from one computer to another.
Warning A sign or message that tells of trouble ahead.

Getting Help 21

Ask To put a question to someone.
Block To stop a person from sending you messages or seeing your profile.
Counselor A person at school whose job is to listen and give advice.
Flag To mark a post so the people who run a site will look at it.
Guardian An adult who is responsible by law for a child's care.
Help Aid from someone else.
Ignore To pay no attention to.
Leave To go away from a site, game or chat.
Mute To switch off the sound, or to silence a person's posts.
Parent A mother or father.
Report To tell a site or an adult about a post or person that breaks the rules.
Rules What a family, school or site says you may and may not do.
Safe Free from harm or danger.
Screenshot A picture of what is on your screen, saved to show an adult.
Stop To quit what you are doing.
Talk To share your thoughts out loud with someone.
Teacher A person whose job is to help pupils learn.
Tell To let a parent or teacher know what happened.
Think To use your mind before you act.
Trusted adult A grown-up you know well and can go to for help, such as a parent or teacher.
Uncomfortable Uneasy; not at ease.

Places and Tools Online 21

App A program on a phone or tablet that does one job.
Blog A website where a person posts writing like a journal.
Browser The program you use to open and look at websites.
Chat To trade typed messages with someone in real time.
Device A phone, tablet, computer or other machine built for a task.
Forum A site where people post questions and answers on a subject.
Game Something played for fun, alone or with others.
Internet The worldwide network that links computers together.
Laptop A folding computer small enough to carry.
Message Words sent from one person to another.
Network A group of computers linked so they can share information.
Offline Not connected to the internet.
Online Connected to the internet.
Search To look for something; an engine for it finds pages by keyword.
Stream To play video or music over the internet without saving it first.
Tablet A flat touch-screen computer bigger than a phone.
Technology Machines and tools, such as computers and phones, made by using science.
Text A short typed note sent from one phone to another.
Video A recording of moving pictures and sound.
Webcam A camera on a computer that sends live video over the internet.
Website A set of pages on the internet under one address.

Your Digital Footprint 21

Citizen A member of a community; a digital one uses technology responsibly and respectfully.
Cookie A small file a website saves on your device to remember you.
Copyright The legal right of a maker to say who may copy a work.
Credit Thanks or praise given to the person who made something.
Delete To remove a post or file.
Digital Having to do with computers and the internet.
Footprint The trail of posts, searches and clicks a person leaves online: a digital ___.
History The list a browser keeps of the pages you have visited.
Permanent Lasting for good; never going away.
Post To put words, a photo or a video online for others to see.
Public Open for anyone to see.
Record A saved account of what was said or done.
Reliable Able to be trusted to be true or correct.
Reputation What other people think of you.
Responsible Able to be trusted to do the right thing.
Share To pass a post, photo or link on to other people.
Source The place a fact or picture came from.
Tag A label added to a photo or post, such as a person's name.
Trace A mark left behind that shows someone was there.
Upload To send a file from your device to the internet.
Viral Spreading quickly from person to person online.

How this list was compiled: 141 internet safety words chosen and defined for this site, in seven themed lists plus a key terms list, an easy list of words of 3 to 5 letters and a hard list of words of 9 letters or more. Spellings and word meanings were checked in the American Heritage Dictionary, https://www.ahdictionary.com/, on 2026-10-16. Terms the dictionary does not define in their online sense were checked the same day in the English Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/, in the articles Internet safety, Phishing, Cyberbullying, Digital footprint, Digital citizen, Etiquette in technology, Clickbait, Trolling and HTTP cookie. Clues are our own wording and are word meanings, not safety advice. Licence: own work

How it works

This internet safety word search printable opens on 16 key terms: Password, Privacy, Phishing, Username, Report and Block among them. Every word has a one-line meaning written for pupils. Nine more lists hold the rest of the 141 words.

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A list for each lesson

Under Start from a list, Personal Information has Address, Birthday and Location. Passwords and Accounts has Username, Avatar and Log out. Online Tricks and Risks has Phishing, Scam, Clickbait and Pop-up. Places and Tools Online has Browser, Webcam and Forum.

Kindness, help and what stays online

Being Kind Online has Netiquette, Empathy and Cyberbullying. Getting Help has Block, Report, Screenshot and Trusted adult, hidden with no gap: TRUSTEDADULT. Your Digital Footprint has Post, Permanent, Reputation and Cookie.

Under More options, tick Show clues, not words: pupils read "A person you do not know" and hunt for Stranger.
Easy Internet Safety Words has 46 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Safe, Tell and Link, for younger grades.

Questions and answers

What is phishing?

Phishing is a scam in which someone poses as a person or company you trust, often in an email or on a fake website, to trick you into giving up passwords or other private information.

What is a digital footprint?

A digital footprint is the trail of activity a person leaves on the internet and on digital devices, such as posts, comments and searches. Part of it is left on purpose and part is gathered without the person doing anything.

What is netiquette?

Netiquette blends the words net and etiquette: good manners for email, chats and other talk online. One common rule is not to type a message all in capital letters, which reads like shouting.

What is cyberbullying?

Cyberbullying is bullying or harassment carried out by electronic means, such as phones, messages and social sites. The word is in the Being Kind Online list, beside Bystander, Empathy and Respect.

All 141 words

Personal Information 19

Passwords and Accounts 18

Being Kind Online 22

Online Tricks and Risks 19

Getting Help 21

Places and Tools Online 21

Your Digital Footprint 21

How it works

A list for each lesson

Kindness, help and what stays online

Questions and answers

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