Polywords

Crib

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

The parish church of St Margaret in Welsh Bicknor, Gloucestershire.

© Stuart Wilding, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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The parish church of St Margaret in Welsh Bicknor, Gloucestershire.

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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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beer beery beet belie belt beret betel bier bile bite biter brie byre byte celeb celebrity celerity celery cert cite city cree creel crib eerily elect elite erect erectly eyrie leer leery liberty lice lire lite litre lyre lyric rebel recite reel relic rely rice rile rite tier tile tiler tire treble tree trey tribe trice trilby tyre yeti
celebrity liberty treble celery trilby recite erect elite relic elect eyrie lyric rebel belie beret trice tribe tree tire tier rice rile rely reel rite tyre tile beer lyre beet belt bier bile bite brie byre cite city crib leer lice yeti
beer beery beet belie belt beret betel bier bile bite biter brie byre byte celeb celebrity celerity celery cert cite city cree creel crib eerily elect elite erect erectly eyrie leer leery liberty lice lire lite litre lyre lyric rebel recite reel relic rely rice rile rite tier tile tiler tire treble tree trey tribe trice trilby tyre yeti

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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 Bier. Cite. Tier.

2 Belt. Celebrity. Celery.

3 Recite. Rite. Tribe.

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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