Polywords

Gold

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

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Gold

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Two golden pheasants settling a dispute on Tresco, one of the Isles of Scilly.

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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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dene dole done dowel down edge eked endow geed geek geld gene glee glen glow glowed gold golden gone gown gowned keel keen knee kneed kneel knew know knowledge ledge leek legend lend lewd lode lodge lone long longed lowed need node ogle ogled olde olden owed owned wedge weed week weeklong weld wend wodge woke woken wold wonk
done down edge gene glee glow gold gone gown keen knee knew know leek lend lewd lone long need node ogle owed weed week weld woke endow kneed kneel ledge lodge olden owned wedge woken glowed golden legend longed weeklong
dene dole done dowel down edge eked endow geed geek geld gene glee glen glow glowed gold golden gone gown gowned keel keen knee kneed kneel knew know knowledge ledge leek legend lend lewd lode lodge lone long longed lowed need node ogle ogled olde olden owed owned wedge weed week weeklong weld wend wodge woke woken wold wonk

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Practice

Opposites Find in Think and Speak

Suggest words or phrases that seem opposite in meaning to each of the words below. We have suggested some possible answers; see if you can find any others.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1. Edge. 2. Know. 3. Lend.

Show Useful Words (A-Z order)

Variations: 1.instead of opposites, suggest words of similar meaning (synonyms). 2.use a word and its opposite in the same sentence. 3.suggest any 5 opposites formed by adding dis-.

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