Ready to put your Italian festive vocabulary in order? 🎄🇮🇹
In this Word Scramble puzzle, you’ll work with Italian words linked to Christmas and end-of-year celebrations.
The letters have been mixed up: your task is to reorganise them so each word appears correctly again.
You can choose between an easier and a harder version.
If a word feels tricky, the English clues will help guide you.
Scroll down for the English translations if you’d like to confirm meanings, and a solutions image is available at the bottom of the page.
Buon divertimento! 😊
Struggling with a clue?
Check the numbered clues below to see the English meaning, then try to guess the solution in Italian.
If you can figure out the answer but don’t know the word, you can look it up in a dictionary…
Or, if that feels like too much work today, scroll down to check the translations and the full solutions below. 😉
Here’s the full list of Italian words from this puzzle, along with their English meanings.
1. attesa → waiting, anticipation
2. auguri → best wishes
3. botti → loud bangs, explosions
4. brindisi → toast
5. campane → bells
6. cenone → large festive dinner
7. decorazioni → decorations
8. pandoro → traditional Italian Christmas cake
9. panettone → Italian Christmas cake with dried fruit
10. presepe → nativity scene
11. regali → presents, gifts
If you enjoy learning Italian through everyday home and family vocabulary, you might like my book Home and Family - Learn Italian with Puzzles .
It includes a variety of word searches, crosswords, word matches, scrambles and other fun challenges designed to help you build useful Italian for real-life conversations.