Polywords

Blue

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

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A summer squall at sea in Cornelian Bay, just south of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, seen over the wheat-fields of Osgodby.

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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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belt bier bile bilge bite biter bitter blue bluer blur blurt brie brig brittle bruit brute bugle bugler built bulge burgle butler butt butte butter gerbil gibe gilt girl girt gite glib glitter glue glut grit grub gruel guile guilt gutter legit lire lite litre litter litterbug lube luge lure lute rebuilt rebut rile rite rube ruble rule tier tiger tile tiler tilt tire title tribe tribute trig trite true trug tube tuber turtle uglier urge uteri utter
rebuilt tribute brittle glitter burgle butter litter turtle gutter bitter butler gruel guile litre utter trite tribe tiger title guilt blurt built bugle brute bulge urge tile tier tilt tire rule blue blur tube bite true rite belt girl gilt grub glue glut grit lute rile glib lure
belt bier bile bilge bite biter bitter blue bluer blur blurt brie brig brittle bruit brute bugle bugler built bulge burgle butler butt butte butter gerbil gibe gilt girl girt gite glib glitter glue glut grit grub gruel guile guilt gutter legit lire lite litre litter litterbug lube luge lure lute rebuilt rebut rile rite rube ruble rule tier tiger tile tiler tilt tire title tribe tribute trig trite true trug tube tuber turtle uglier urge uteri utter

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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 Blue. Lute. Tilt.

2 Glue. Guilt. Tube.

3 Glib. Rule. Tiger.

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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