Polywords

Fen

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

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Fen

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The Lincolnshire Fens at Bunker’s Hill, just northwest of Boston on the way to Lincoln, and a little east of the River Witham as it flows down to the Wash twelve miles away. It was steam power in the 19th century that produced the first effective, long-lasting drainage of the Fens, creating places to call home and re-invigorating Britain’s agricultural industry.

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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 afar anger arcane area arena arrange cafe cage cane carafe care carer carfare carnage crag crane earn face fang farce fare fear fern fragrance franc garner gear grace gran nacre narc near race racer raga rage rang range ranger rare rear reran
arrange crane grace range farce anger carer arena crag race near rage rang rear rare acre area fare fear fang face fern cane care gear cafe cage earn
acer acne acre afar anger arcane area arena arrange cafe cage cane carafe care carer carfare carnage crag crane earn face fang farce fare fear fern fragrance franc garner gear grace gran nacre narc near race racer raga rage rang range ranger rare rear reran

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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 Crag. Fare. Rage.

2 Acre. Carer. Earn.

3 Arena. Fear. Ring.

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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