Polywords

Auto Polyword

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

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Introduction

A Polyword is a game with words and their 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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adept aped deep depend dependant nape neap pane panned pant panted pate paten peat pedant peed pendant pendent penned pent tape taped
adept aped deep depend dependant nape pane panned pant panted pate peat pendant pendent penned pent tape taped
adept aped deep depend dependant nape neap pane panned pant panted pate paten peat pedant peed pendant pendent penned pent tape taped

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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 Depend. Nape. Peat.

2 Pan. Pane. Pant.

3 Ape. Dependent. Pendant.

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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