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.
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aced
acer
ache
ached
acre
acted
ahead
alder
alert
altar
alter
arcade
arced
arch
arched
area
cadet
cadre
carat
card
care
cared
caret
cart
carted
cartel
cater
cathedral
cedar
cert
chalet
char
charade
chard
chare
chart
charted
chat
cheat
clad
claret
clear
cleat
cradle
crate
crated
cred
dace
dacha
dahl
dale
dare
dart
data
date
deal
dealt
dear
dearth
death
decal
delta
detach
drat
each
earl
earth
eclat
etch
hale
halt
halted
halter
hard
hare
hared
hart
hate
hated
hater
hatred
head
heal
hear
heard
heart
heat
held
herald
herd
lace
laced
larch
lard
latch
latched
late
later
lath
lathe
lather
leach
lead
leat
lech
letch
race
raced
rate
rated
reach
react
read
real
rectal
retch
rhea
talc
tale
tare
teach
teal
tear
tech
thread
trace
traced
trachea
trad
trade
tread
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Practice
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
Area.
Date.
Read.
2
Lead.
Rate.
Teach.
3
Death.
Earl.
Trade.
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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