Polywords

Arid

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

A view over the sand dunes of the Tadrart Acacus mountain range in Libya.

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Arid

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A view over the sand dunes of the Tadrart Acacus mountain range in Libya.

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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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adorn adroit anti arid darn dart dinar dint dirt ditto drain drat idiot into intro iota iron nadir nori ordain radii radio radon raid rain rand rani rant ratio ration rind riot road roan rota taint tarn taro tarot tart tint titan titian toad torn tort trad tradition train trait triad trio trod trot
tradition ration adroit ordain adorn ratio titan radio taint triad trait train drain idiot torn tint tart tort rota trio trod tarn toad rant into arid darn dart dirt drat iota road iron raid rain rind riot trot
adorn adroit anti arid darn dart dinar dint dirt ditto drain drat idiot into intro iota iron nadir nori ordain radii radio radon raid rain rand rani rant ratio ration rind riot road roan rota taint tarn taro tarot tart tint titan titian toad torn tort trad tradition train trait triad trio trod trot

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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 Radio. Road. Train.

2 Idiot. Rota. Tear.

3 Rind. Tart. Tradition.

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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