Polywords

Bare

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

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A lone tree on wintry farmland near Aston-on-Trent in Derbyshire, plastered with drifting snow.

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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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fabric facet cater craft abate brief fibre irate react trace tribe farce crate trice brace after befit bait fire fret area race raft rate rice feta rife rift tear afar tier tire acre brie feat abet cafe bite care bier cart beta cite crab crib fear beat bear face fact fair bare fare brat fate
abate abet acer acre afar afire after area aria bacteria bait bare barf bear beat befit beta bier bite biter brace brae brat brie brief cabaret caber cafe carafe carat care caret cart cater cert cite crab craft crate crib fabric fabricate face facet fact fair farce fare fart fate fear feat feta fiat fibre fire frat fret irate race raft rate react refit rice rife rift rite tare tear tiara tier tire trace tribe trice

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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 Bite. Crate. Raft.

2 Brat. Cafe. Fair.

3 Craft. Fiber. Irate.

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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