Polywords

Colliery

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

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Colliery

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Wagons at the pit in Beamish Museum, County Durham.

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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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elite emit impel implement inept inlet item lent lien lime limp limpet line lint lite meet melt mete mien mile mime mine mint mite peel pele pelmet pelt pent pile pine pint pitmen teem teen temp tempi temple tile time tine
emit item lent lime limp line lint meet melt mile mime mine mint mite peel pelt pent pile pine pint teem teen tile time elite impel inept inlet limpet pitmen temple
elite emit impel implement inept inlet item lent lien lime limp limpet line lint lite meet melt mete mien mile mime mine mint mite peel pele pelmet pelt pent pile pine pint pitmen teem teen temp tempi temple tile time tine

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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 Limp. Teen. Temple.

2 Inept. Meet. Mile.

3 Mint. Pelt. Pine.

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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