Polywords

Burn

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

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Burn

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Killhope Burn in County Durham, a tributary of the River Wear. ‘Burn’ is a dialect word for a small stream, chiefly used in Scotland and Northern England, and derives from Old English ‘burna’.

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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 bent blue bluer blunt blunter blur blurt brunt brute bunt burn burnt butler butt butte butter lent lube lure lute nett nutter rebut rent rube ruble rule rune runt tent tern true tube tuber tune tuner turbulent turn turtle tutu untrue utter
butter turtle butler blunt burnt brunt utter brute true tent bent tube turn tune blue lent blur burn lure rent rule belt lute
belt bent blue bluer blunt blunter blur blurt brunt brute bunt burn burnt butler butt butte butter lent lube lure lute nett nutter rebut rent rube ruble rule rune runt tent tern true tube tuber tune tuner turbulent turn turtle tutu untrue 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 Lend. Rend. Tune.

2 Belt. Tent. Turn.

3 Blue. Blur. Rent.

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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