Polywords

Halo

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

© Gert Blüthner, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

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Halo

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A sun halo peeps all around a snow-burdened conifer in Altenberg, Sachsen, Germany, right on the border with the Czech Republic.

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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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ache aloe alto cache cachet catch chalet chat cheat choc chocolate cleat cloche clot cloth clothe coach coal coat cochlea cocoa cola colt cool coot cote each echo eclat etch hale halo halt hate heal heat hole hoot hotel lace latch late lath lathe leach leat lech letch loath loathe locate loch loco loot loth oath ocelot taco talc tale teach teal tech tool
chalet locate clothe latch leach cocoa hotel teach cheat coach cloth cache catch late loch loot oath tale ache halt lace chat clot coal coat colt cool hoot each echo hale halo hate heal heat hole tool
ache aloe alto cache cachet catch chalet chat cheat choc chocolate cleat cloche clot cloth clothe coach coal coat cochlea cocoa cola colt cool coot cote each echo eclat etch hale halo halt hate heal heat hole hoot hotel lace latch late lath lathe leach leat lech letch loath loathe locate loch loco loot loth oath ocelot taco talc tale teach teal tech tool

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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. Catch. 2. Late. 3. Later. 4. Teach.

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 in-.

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