Polywords

Gape

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

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Gape

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Looking up and out of the mouth of Gaping Gill in North Yorkshire, a natural cave on the southern slopes of Ingleborough. It is 322ft deep, and Fell Beck makes the country’s tallest unbroken waterfall as it pours into 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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ammo ergo game gape gear germ goer gore gram gramme grape grope mare marge mega memo mope more ogre omega opera page pager pare pear perm poem pore pram program programme prom rage ramp rape rare ream reap rear rearm roam roar roger romp rope
grope opera grape ramp rape rare rage gear ream reap romp rope roar roam rear pram pore more ogre mare gore germ pear pare gram
ammo ergo game gape gear germ goer gore gram gramme grape grope mare marge mega memo mope more ogre omega opera page pager pare pear perm poem pore pram program programme prom rage ramp rape rare ream reap rear rearm roam roar roger romp rope

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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 Gram. Roam. Roar.

2 Gore. Ogre. Pore.

3 Grape. Rage. Ramp.

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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