Polywords

Adder

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

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Adder

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An adder coils up cosily in the sunshine near Bowland Bridge, Cumbria.

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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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cine circle cleric clone coerce coil coin coir colic cone core corn cornice cree creel creole crone encircle encore enrol icon iron leer lice licence lien line liner lino lion lire loci loin lone loner lore nice nicer niece nori once recce recline recoil recon reconcile reel rein relic rice rile roil role
circle cleric clone coerce coil coin cone core corn encore enrol icon iron leer lice licence line liner lion lone loner lore nice nicer niece once recline recoil reel rein relic rice role
cine circle cleric clone coerce coil coin coir colic cone core corn cornice cree creel creole crone encircle encore enrol icon iron leer lice licence lien line liner lino lion lire loci loin lone loner lore nice nicer niece nori once recce recline recoil recon reconcile reel rein relic rice rile roil role

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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 Relic. Rice. Role.

2 Core. Corn. Lone.

3 Coin. Leer. Liner.

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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