Polywords

Brine

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

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Brine

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Seaweed on the beach near Cultra, County Down, on the west coast of Northern Ireland.

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© Albert Bridge, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Seaweed on the beach near Cultra, County Down, on the west coast of Northern Ireland.

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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begin begun being bier binge bingo bogie bone boner bong bonier bore boring born borne bough brie brig brine bring brogue bung burgeon burgh burn enough ergo euro gibe giro goer gone goner gore grin groin grub heir herb hero heroin heron hinge hire hoeing hone horn hour huge huger hung hunger ignore inure iron negro neigh neighbour nigh nori ogre region reign rein rhino ring robe robin robing rogue rouge rough roughen rube ruin ruing rune rung urge urine
enough hunger ignore region reign begun heron hinge rough rogue robin neigh rhino begin brine bring borne bough being bore nigh ogre urge rung born rein ring robe bone ruin gone gore grin grub heir herb hero hire burn horn hour huge hung iron
begin begun being bier binge bingo bogie bone boner bong bonier bore boring born borne bough brie brig brine bring brogue bung burgeon burgh burn enough ergo euro gibe giro goer gone goner gore grin groin grub heir herb hero heroin heron hinge hire hoeing hone horn hour huge huger hung hunger ignore inure iron negro neigh neighbour nigh nori ogre region reign rein rhino ring robe robin robing rogue rouge rough roughen rube ruin ruing rune rung urge urine

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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 Gore. Reign. Urge.

2 Hinge. Region. Rogue.

3 Burn. Rein. Robin.

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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