Polywords

Fisherman

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

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Fisherman

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A fishing vessel in the shallows of the Indian Ocean about the island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania on the east coast of Africa.

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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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accord actor arch card cart catch catchword char chard chart chat choc chord chow coach coat coda cord coward crotch crow crowd dart dhow doth drat draw hard hart hoar hoard oath roach road rota taco taro thaw throw toad torch toward trad trod ward wart watch what whoa woad word worth wotcha wrath
coward toward worth watch torch throw hoard actor crowd wrath coach chart chord catch ward toad trod coat wart thaw what word card arch cart cord crow dart draw chat oath road hard
accord actor arch card cart catch catchword char chard chart chat choc chord chow coach coat coda cord coward crotch crow crowd dart dhow doth drat draw hard hart hoar hoard oath roach road rota taco taro thaw throw toad torch toward trad trod ward wart watch what whoa woad word worth wotcha wrath

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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 Arch. Coward. Toward.

2 Chart. Toad. Worth.

3 Card. Thaw. Wart.

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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