Polywords

Beer

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

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Beer

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A horse-drawn brewer’s dray, formerly of Newcastle Breweries, trundles through Beamish Museum in County Durham.

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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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been beer belie bell belle bier bile bill boil boiler bole boll bone boner bonier bore born borne brie brill brine broil enrol enroll iron leer libel lien lilo line liner lino lion lire lobe loin lone lonelier loner lore noble nobler nori rebel rebellion reel rein rile rill robe robin roil role roll
boiler libel broil brine borne noble rebel enrol robin belle liner belie lone loin lore reel rein rile robe role lobe been lion bone bell bill boil boll bore born iron leer beer line roll
been beer belie bell belle bier bile bill boil boiler bole boll bone boner bonier bore born borne brie brill brine broil enrol enroll iron leer libel lien lilo line liner lino lion lire lobe loin lone lonelier loner lore noble nobler nori rebel rebellion reel rein rile rill robe robin roil role roll

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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 Iron. Lore. Roll.

2 Bear. Belie. Rein.

3 Belle. Boll. Lone.

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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