Polywords

Fete

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

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Fete

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Back in 2011, the residents of Wall in Northumberland (named after the nearby Hadrian’s Wall) held a fête on the village green. The photographer tells us that the events included children’s dancing, donkey rides and ice cream on a scorching summer’s day.

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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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egret eight either ether feet ferret fete fight fighter fire firth free freer freight freighter fret frier frig fright ghee gift girt girth gite greet grief grit heft heftier heifer heir here hire reef refer refit regret retire rife rift right rite thee their there thief three tier tiger tire tree trier trig
freight regret retire fright either ferret grief greet their fight refer right eight there thief tiger three tire tree rife tier rite thee rift grit fret free fire feet fete gift here hire heir reef
egret eight either ether feet ferret fete fight fighter fire firth free freer freight freighter fret frier frig fright ghee gift girt girth gite greet grief grit heft heftier heifer heir here hire reef refer refit regret retire rife rift right rite thee their there thief three tier tiger tire tree trier trig

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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 Hire. Thou. Tree.

2 Either. Foot. Heir.

3 Gift. Greet. Rift.

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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