Italian has plenty of words that look or sound remarkably similar, even though their meanings can be completely different.
This Italian word search is all about those easily confused words, with eleven pairs hiding in the grid. Sometimes just one letter is enough to turn one word into something else entirely.
Find the Italian words hidden in the grid. They can run forwards, backwards, vertically or diagonally. To select a word, drag your mouse or finger from its first letter all the way to its last.
When you’ve finished, you’ll find all the word pairs with their English translations below, along with the full solution.
Similar-sounding words have caused quite a few funny misunderstandings in our family over the years, in both Italian and English. Some of them have become stories we still laugh about. You can read a few of my favourites in Martina, Take This Lamb...
And if all those single and double consonants have got you wondering how good your Italian ear really is, you might enjoy Il dettato. It's an online quiz inspired by the Italian spelling tests I remember from school. Listen carefully and see how many you can get right.