Etsy is a file. The buyer wants a short themed pack they can print this afternoon, not a 120-page KDP dump with a new filename.
A Count Word Search page is one word above a letter grid and a box for the count. There is no word list. The product is how many times that word appears. Count Word Search is the generator. This article is the listing. A generate walkthrough for this module is not live on the site yet — do not send readers to a create URL.
This is not Standard Word Search (a list to hunt). A KDP Count Word Search book (count-word-search-puzzle-book-kdp) is a different listing: trim, page count, Look Inside. Same count. Wrong file for Etsy.
Pack size is the product
A pack that sells as a printable is short and themed. Theme the single word: a holiday, a classroom topic, a party. One theme per ZIP. A leftover dump of every grid you ever generated is a book wearing the wrong listing.
Each page is a pair: the counting grid plus a key that shows the marked copies and the number. Put the keys in the ZIP and say so. Buyers of printables expect them. Hiding them looks unfinished.
Match the cover. If you promised a kids party pack, page one is that word and that difficulty. The usual hidden-count range is about 10–14; you set it. A dense word-letters grid is a harder pack than an alphabet-filler page. Do not put the hard fill under a toddler thumbnail.
Copies run in eight directions and can cross. A palindrome still counts once. There is always exactly one correct total. The answer box uses the same number of squares on every page in the run — sized from the highest count you allowed — so the box never leaks this page’s answer.
Puzzle Book Studio is the assembly step if you later want a bound book. Do not upload that book PDF as the Etsy pack.
The four-channel map is the product-form article. A TPT worksheet (tpt-count-word-search-worksheets) is one classroom page. This is the short themed download.
What the preview has to show
The first photo is a real counting page: one word, a letter grid, an empty count box. A word bank in the thumbnail has already lost.
Page one matches the title. If you promised a winter pack, page one is that winter word. Type and the box survive home paper.
Online play is yes: Creative Interactive or Productivity Interactive. The seller publishes playable catalogs — JSON/HTML for the WordPress plugin or a self-hosted player — to a site they already own. This listing is still the PDF. See the editions page. A default catalog is a menu. A finish-screen button is only there if you opted into a leveled game under Catalog Merge → Game Options. That extra is online-playable-count-word-search.
Commercial rights for printables on Etsy are part of the Puzzle Maker Pro license as stated on the homepage. That is not a substitute for Etsy’s digital-product rules.
The whole point
An Etsy Count Word Search printable is a short themed pack whose thumbnail shows one word and a count box, with the number and the marked grid in the ZIP. Leave the long interior for a book. Leave the vocab list hunt to Standard Word Search.