Polywords

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

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This Atlantic Puffin is enjoying the freedom of the skies over the Hermaness Nature Reserve near Barrafirth in the Shetland Islands.

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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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acer acre aerate afar afire after area aria cafe cafeteria carafe carat care caret cart cater cert cite craft crate create cree eater erect face facet fact fair farce fare fart fate fear feat feet feta fete fiat fierce fire frat free fret irate race raft rate react recite reef refit rice rife rift rite tare tear tiara tier tire trace tree trice
recite create fierce erect craft irate react farce cater crate trace after trice rate raft race free tree fret reef fire tear rift rife rice tire tier rite cart cite care cafe acre area face fact feat feet fete fear fate fair fare
acer acre aerate afar afire after area aria cafe cafeteria carafe carat care caret cart cater cert cite craft crate create cree eater erect face facet fact fair farce fare fart fate fear feat feet feta fete fiat fierce fire frat free fret irate race raft rate react recite reef refit rice rife rift rite tare tear tiara tier tire trace tree trice

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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 Fear. Feat. Reef.

2 Cite. Crate. Foot.

3 Acre. Cater. Tear.

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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