Polywords

Flit

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

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Flit

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A Northern Brown Argus butterfly (Aricia artaxerxes), sometimes known as the Durham Argus, largely confined to northern England and central and eastern Scotland, and sadly now a rare sight. This one was photographed in Bishop Middleham, County Durham: the photographer provides lots of extra information (click the picture to read it).

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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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alit anti fail fain faint fiat final flan flap flat flint flip flit lain lift lint naff nail niff pail pain paint pant pilaf pilaff pint pita plain plaint plaintiff plait plan plant pliant tail tiff
plait flint final paint faint plant plain pant pint pain tail plan tiff nail flan flap flat fail flip flit lint lain lift pail
alit anti fail fain faint fiat final flan flap flat flint flip flit lain lift lint naff nail niff pail pain paint pant pilaf pilaff pint pita plain plaint plaintiff plait plan plant pliant tail tiff

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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 Fail. Flip. Plait.

2 Faint. Flan. Flit.

3 Paint. Plan. Tiff.

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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