Polywords

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

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© Andy Waddington, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Swaledale sheep, with Aisgill in the valley below; across the other side, the route of the Settle-Carlisle railway can be seen above the two barns. The photographer notes that these sheep were keeping a watchful eye on his collie (on a leash), in case they were about to be rounded up.

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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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acer acne acre afire cafe cairn cane canine cannier care cine crane earn face fain fair fancier farce fare fear fern fiance finance financier fine finer fire franc icier inane infer inner nacre narc near niacin nice nicer nine race rain rani rein rice rife
fancier finance canine niacin fiance icier infer inner farce crane nice fair acne near nine race rice rife rein rain care acre fern fear fine cane cafe earn face fire fare
acer acne acre afire cafe cairn cane canine cannier care cine crane earn face fain fair fancier farce fare fear fern fiance finance financier fine finer fire franc icier inane infer inner nacre narc near niacin nice nicer nine race rain rani rein rice rife

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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 Fear. Fiance. Inner.

2 Acre. Fancy. Infer.

3 Crane. Near. Nice.

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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