Polywords

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

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Shakespeare’s Globe, a theatre in London which recreates the ‘wooden O’ of the great playwright’s day.

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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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acting action anoint anon anti antic atoning caning cannot canon cant canting canto canton ciao coat coating coin conga coning contagion contain cooing coon coot gain gait giant gnat goat gonna goon icon ingot into iota nation noon noting notion octagon onion onto otic taco tang tango ting toga tonic toning
octagon contain acting notion noting nation anoint action cannot onion giant ingot tonic canon tango noon tang toga iota onto coot coat coin gain icon goat gnat gait into
acting action anoint anon anti antic atoning caning cannot canon cant canting canto canton ciao coat coating coin conga coning contagion contain cooing coon coot gain gait giant gnat goat gonna goon icon ingot into iota nation noon noting notion octagon onion onto otic taco tang tango ting toga tonic toning

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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 Anoint. Cannot. Giant.

2 Action. Gnat. Toga.

3 Coat. Note. Onion.

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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