Polywords

Beef

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

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Beef

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Highland cattle beside Loch Hope, right up in the far north of Scotland, just a few hundred yards from the sea.

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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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bedfellow beef befell bell belle bellow bellowed below bled bleed blew blow bode bold bole boll bowed bowel bowl bowled dell dole doll dowel dweeb dwell elbow elbowed feed feel fell felled fellow fled flee flew floe flow flowed fold fowl lewd lobe lobed lode lowed olde owed weed weld well welled wold wolf wolfed
beef befell bell belle bellow below bled bleed blew blow bode bold bole bowed bowel bowl bowled dell dole doll dwell elbow elbowed feed feel fell felled fellow fled flee flew floe flow flowed fold fowl lewd lobe lobed lode lowed owed weed weld well welled wolf wolfed
bedfellow beef befell bell belle bellow bellowed below bled bleed blew blow bode bold bole boll bowed bowel bowl bowled dell dole doll dowel dweeb dwell elbow elbowed feed feel fell felled fellow fled flee flew floe flow flowed fold fowl lewd lobe lobed lode lowed olde owed weed weld well welled wold wolf wolfed

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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 Bell. Doll. Feed.

2 Dwell. Fly. Wolf.

3 Fell. Fowl. Weld.

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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