Polywords

Bead

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

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Bead

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Foxgloves beaded with raindrops at the entrance to Drumkeeragh forest, about 20 miles south of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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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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abed abide afire aide airbed aired airer arid bade bairn band bane bard bare bared barer barf barfed barn barred barren bead bean bear beard bend bide bier bind binder bird brad brae braid brain brained bran brand bread bred briar bride brie brief brier brine dare darn deaf dean dear debar dinar dine diner dire drab drain drear drier earn errand fade fain fair fairer fare fared fear fend fern fibre fiend find finder fine fined finer fire firebrand fired friar fried friend frier idea inbred infer infrared nadir near nerd rabid raid raider rain rained rand randier rani rare read rear refrain rein rend reran ride rider rife rind

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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 Dean. Read. Refrain.

2 Bean. Dare. Rabid.

3 Darn. Fear. Idea.

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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