Polywords

Alien

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

© Nigel Davies, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

More Info

Back to text

Alien

© Nigel Davies, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Source
X

‘Like the surface of Mars’ says the photographer, and adds with feeling (or maybe without it) ‘only colder’. This is Glyder Fawr near Pont Pen-y-benglog in the northwest corner of Wales.

Back to text

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.

See All Words

alien alit alive anent ante anti anvil eaten elan elite enliven entail even event evil inane inlet innate invent lain lane late lave lean leant leat leave leaven lenient lent lien line linen linnet lint lite live liven nail naive naivete native nave navel neat neaten nine tail tale teal teen tile tine vain vale valent valentine valet vane veal veil vein venal venetian venial vent vial vile vine vital
lenient invent entail native innate naive leave leant valet alive alien vital linen navel anvil inlet inane elite event eaten tile veal vent vile vine vein veil vale vane tale vain evil lain lane late even lean lent nave neat nine nail live line tail
alien alit alive anent ante anti anvil eaten elan elite enliven entail even event evil inane inlet innate invent lain lane late lave lean leant leat leave leaven lenient lent lien line linen linnet lint lite live liven nail naive naivete native nave navel neat neaten nine tail tale teal teen tile tine vain vale valent valentine valet vane veal veil vein venal venetian venial vent vial vile vine vital

Archive

See All Polywords (246)

Find Alien in the Archive

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 Innate. Lie. Line.

2 Tail. Tile. Veal.

3 Elite. Nave. Vital.

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.)

Archive

If you like what I’m doing here on Clay Lane, from time to time you could buy me a coffee.

Buy Me a Coffee is a crowdfunding website, used by over a million people. It is designed to help content creators like me make a living from their work. ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ prides itself on its security, and there is no need to register.