Polywords

Fern

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

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© Peter Trimming, Geograph. Licence: CC-BY-SA 2.0.

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Fern

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The star of this photograph, taken in Eskdale Green, Cumbria, was supposed to be a squirrel. Apparently, he had somewhere else to be.

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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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eerie eerier enter entire entree feet feint fern ferret fete fine finer fire free freer fret frier inert infer inter interfere nitre reef reefer refer refine refiner refit rein rent retire retiree rife rift rite teen teenier tern terrine tier tine tire tree trier
feet fern fine fire free fret reef rein rent rife rift rite teen tier tire tree eerie enter feint inert infer inter refer entire entree ferret refine retire
eerie eerier enter entire entree feet feint fern ferret fete fine finer fire free freer fret frier inert infer inter interfere nitre reef reefer refer refine refiner refit rein rent retire retiree rife rift rite teen teenier tern terrine tier tine tire tree trier

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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 Fine. Inter. Retire.

2 Free. Infer. Tree.

3 Eerie. Ferret. Rite.

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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