Chicktionary Lite for the iPhone and iPod touch is a free educational app that delivers a whole lot of poultry-flavored word search fun.

True, it’s not the best word game I’ve ever played on the iPhone (see Bookworm), but the price is right and the chickens are funny.

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The chicken head bobbing and clucking (when your kids use one of their letters to make a word) is nice, as is the “beak sneak” option (which fills in one letter from each of the words not yet found).  Also, you get 12 levels, which is v-e-r-y generous for a free game.

We tested version 1.7, which is compatible with the iPhone (OS 3 or later) and the iPod touch. Developer BlockDot, Inc. Read our disclosure policy.