Polywords

Calm

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

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Calm

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An autumn day in the Lake District, looking across Wastwater to Yewbarrow and Great Gable.

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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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able acme acne acumen album albumen alumna alumnae amble ambulance amen anal balance bale balm banal bane beam bean beau blame blue cabal cable calm came camel canal cane clam clan clean club clue cube elan lace lacuna lacunae lama lamb lame lance lane lean lube lumen mace male manacle mane manual maul meal mean menu mule name nebula numb ulna umbel unable uncle
balance unable manual camel canal uncle clean cable blame lance album amble banal lane lean mace lame meal numb mane name mule maul menu mean male able lamb blue acne amen bale balm bane beam bean calm came cane clam clan clue cube lace club
able acme acne acumen album albumen alumna alumnae amble ambulance amen anal balance bale balm banal bane beam bean beau blame blue cabal cable calm came camel canal cane clam clan clean club clue cube elan lace lacuna lacunae lama lamb lame lance lane lean lube lumen mace male manacle mane manual maul meal mean menu mule name nebula numb ulna umbel unable uncle

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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 Cane. Clan. Menu.

2 Calm. Camel. Maul.

3 Banal. Mace. Uncle.

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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