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

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A ram is relieved of his heavy woollen overcoat in East Bergholt, Suffolk.

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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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acme ample apiece calm came camel camp cape claim clam clamp clap clime clip email emcee epee epic impale impel lace lame lamp leap lice lima lime limp mace mail male malice maple meal melee mica mice mile pace pail pale palm peace peal peel pele piece piecemeal pile place plaice plea
apiece plaice impale malice maple email ample impel peace clime clamp place piece claim camel mile meal mice pale pace pail peel palm pile peal lime male calm came camp cape clam clap clip epic mail lace lame lamp leap lice limp mace plea
acme ample apiece calm came camel camp cape claim clam clamp clap clime clip email emcee epee epic impale impel lace lame lamp leap lice lima lime limp mace mail male malice maple meal melee mica mice mile pace pail pale palm peace peal peel pele piece piecemeal pile place plaice plea

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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 Clam. Pile. Plea.

2 Calm. Clamp. Clip.

3 Clap. Mace. Peal.

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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