Polywords

Baa

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

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Baa

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Lots of sheep at Haresceugh farm near Lazonby, a few miles southeast of Carlisle in Cumbria. Black Fell rises beyond the farm, marking the eastern edge of the Eden Valley and start of the North Pennines.

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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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banned nuance canned dunce dance bead nude naan dune acne dean daub bean bade cube band bane cane bend
abed abundance aced acne baaed bade band bane banned bead bean beau bend cane caned canned cube cubed cued dace dance daub dean dunce dune naan nuance nude unbend

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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 Ban. Dean. Dune.

2 Bead. Bean. Nuance.

3 Band. Bane. Bid.

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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