Polywords

Duty

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

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Duty

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Smuggler’s Cove just north of Thornwick Nab near Flamborough in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

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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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body bout buoy burp bury byproduct copy cord coup court coypu crop croup crud crypt curb curd curt dory doubt dour drop duct duty outcry port pour pout prod product proud ropy rout ruby tour trod turbo typo tyro your

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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 Buoy. Dour. Duty.

2 Bout. Curd. Ruby.

3 Byproduct. Doubt. Product.

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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