Polywords

Awake

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

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Awake

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The common linnet. The Victorians kept them as cage-birds, and they recur in 19th century literature: it was a linnet that awoke the Selfish Giant in Oscar Wilde’s children’s tale, and brought Spring back to his garden.

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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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eight elite engine enlighten gene genie gent gentile gentle ghee gilt gite glee glen glint heel heeling hilt hinge hint ingle inlet legit length lengthen lenient lent lien light lighten line linen ling linnet lint lite lithe neigh nigh night nine ninth teeing teen thee then thin thine thing tile tine ting tinge tingle
gene gilt glee glen heel hilt hint lent line lint nine then thin tile eight elite genie glint hinge inlet light linen lithe neigh night ninth thing tinge engine gentle length tingle gentile lenient lighten lengthen
eight elite engine enlighten gene genie gent gentile gentle ghee gilt gite glee glen glint heel heeling hilt hinge hint ingle inlet legit length lengthen lenient lent lien light lighten line linen ling linnet lint lite lithe neigh nigh night nine ninth teeing teen thee then thin thine thing tile tine ting tinge tingle

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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 Inlet. Lenient. Thing.

2 Heel. Nine. Ninth.

3 Gentle. Lithe. Thin.

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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