Polywords

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

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Horse racing in Brighton.
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Horse racing in Brighton.

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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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brute burp butt butte butter buttercup cert crept cruet cube curb cure curt cute cuter cutter cutup ecru erupt pert puce pure putt putter rebut rube truce true tube tuber tutu utter
buttercup butter putter brute crept erupt rebut truce tuber utter burp butt cube curb cure curt cute pert puce pure putt true tube
brute burp butt butte butter buttercup cert crept cruet cube curb cure curt cute cuter cutter cutup ecru erupt pert puce pure putt putter rebut rube truce true tube tuber tutu 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 Creep. Cure. Tuber.

2 Brute. Burp. Pure.

3 Butt. Curb. Putter.

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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