Polywords

Acre

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

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Acre

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A view over Weardale in County Durham, looking from the moors southeast towards Crawleyside and the town of Stanhope below.

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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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acer acre acute aver avert care carer caret cart carter carve carver cater cave caver cert crate crater crave cruet curate cure curt curvature curve cute cuter ecru race racer rare rate rave raver react rear recur tare tear trace tracer truce true truer verruca
verruca curate carver crater crate raver react cuter curve recur cruet crave trace caver cater carve truce caret carer avert truer acute racer rave tear true rear acer rate rare race cute acre cure cave cart care aver curt
acer acre acute aver avert care carer caret cart carter carve carver cater cave caver cert crate crater crave cruet curate cure curt curvature curve cute cuter ecru race racer rare rate rave raver react rear recur tare tear trace tracer truce true truer verruca

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Practice

Spinners Find in Think and Speak

For each group of words, compose a sentence that uses all three. You can use any form of the word: for example, cat → cats, go → went, or quick → quickly, though neigh → neighbour is stretching it a bit.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1 Caret. Carve. Crave.

2 Caver. Truce. Verruca.

3 Cute. Recur. Trace.

Variations: 1. include direct and indirect speech 2. include one or more of these words: although, because, despite, either/or, if, unless, until, when, whether, which, who 3. use negatives (not, isn’t, neither/nor, never, nobody etc.)

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