Polywords

Forewarned

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

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Forewarned

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Forewarned is forearmed... An elegant and rather long finger-post gives the motorist a heads-up near St Winnow in Cornwall.

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© Albert Bridge, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Forewarned is forearmed... An elegant and rather long finger-post gives the motorist a heads-up near St Winnow in Cornwall.

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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anti arid darn dart dawn dinar dint dirt drain drat draw drawn hair hand hard hart hind hint inward nadir raid rain rand rani rant rind tarn than thaw thin third trad train triad twain twin wadi wait wand want ward warn wart what whir whit width wind with withdraw withdrawn wraith wrath writ
withdraw wraith inward width train drawn drain third wrath wand wait twin what wind with thin warn wart want rind draw hair hand dirt dart dawn hard hart rant than hint raid rain thaw
anti arid darn dart dawn dinar dint dirt drain drat draw drawn hair hand hard hart hind hint inward nadir raid rain rand rani rant rind tarn than thaw thin third trad train triad twain twin wadi wait wand want ward warn wart what whir whit width wind with withdraw withdrawn wraith wrath writ

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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 Rain. Want. Withdraw.

2 Draw. Than. Wrath.

3 Dawn. Drain. Hart.

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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