Polywords

Aloe

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

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Aloe

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Aloe arborescens near the summit of Mount Vumba (Bvumba) in Mozambique. The range, whose name means ‘Mountains of the Mist’ in Shona, straddles the Mozambique-Zimbabwe border near the southeast coast of Africa.

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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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allege aloe cage cagoule call cell cello clog clue coal cola coll collage colleague college cull eagle gale gall gaol glace glee glue goal gull lace league legal local locale luge ogle
college allege league local legal eagle cello goal cage call cell lace gull glue coal glee clog gaol gall gale aloe cull clue ogle
allege aloe cage cagoule call cell cello clog clue coal cola coll collage colleague college cull eagle gale gall gaol glace glee glue goal gull lace league legal local locale luge ogle

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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 Cage. Glee. Local.

2 Cello. Clog. Eagle.

3 Aloe. Gale. Ogle.

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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