Polywords

Acorn

Make as many words as you can from just nine letters. Can you beat our score?

Acorns in the Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês, Portugal.

© Brandt Kurowski, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Acorn

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Acorns in the Parque Nacional da Peneda-Gerês, Portugal.

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and letters. Make words of four letters or more from the letters of a nine-letter word, using each letter only once. Include the highlighted letter in every word you make. Can you beat our score?

Tap on any letter to use it for your word. Remember to include the highlighted letter. To change the highlighted letter and get different words, click here.

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abhor acorn albino anchor arch bacon bail bairn barn baron birch blah blanch bloc boar boil born brain bran branch broach broil bronchial cabin cairn carbon carob carol chain chair char chin china choir choral ciao clan coal cobra coil coin coir cola coral corn crab crib hail hair halo hoar hobnail horn icon inch iron lain lair larch liar lino lion lira loan loch loci loin nacho nail narc nori oilcan oral rail rain ranch rani rhino rich roach roan robin roil
choral anchor branch carbon chain chair china choir abhor cobra acorn coral larch ranch robin carol abhor carob brain baron birch bairn bacon cairn broil cabin liar lion loan loch nail arch barn rail rain bail rich oral iron lair boar chin bran born clan coal boil coil coin bloc lain corn crab crib hail hair halo hoar horn icon inch
abhor acorn albino anchor arch bacon bail bairn barn baron birch blah blanch bloc boar boil born brain bran branch broach broil bronchial cabin cairn carbon carob carol chain chair char chin china choir choral ciao clan coal cobra coil coin coir cola coral corn crab crib hail hair halo hoar hobnail horn icon inch iron lain lair larch liar lino lion lira loan loch loci loin nacho nail narc nori oilcan oral rail rain ranch rani rhino rich roach roan robin roil

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Practice

Opposites Find in Think and Speak

Suggest words or phrases that seem opposite in meaning to each of the words below. We have suggested some possible answers; see if you can find any others.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1. Brain. 2. Nail. 3. Oral.

Show Useful Words (A-Z order)

Variations: 1.instead of opposites, suggest words of similar meaning (synonyms). 2.use a word and its opposite in the same sentence. 3.suggest any 5 opposites formed by adding -less.

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