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High

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

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High

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At 1,150 ft, the railway station at Dent in Cumbria is the highest in the national railway network of England. It is also 5 miles from Dent itself.

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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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aced acid acne acted addict aide aided antacid ante anti antic caddie cadet candid candida candidate candied cane caned cant canted cent cine cite cited dace dance danced data date dated dead dean decant dent detain dice diced dicta died diet dine dined dint edict edit enact iced idea neat nice tend tide tided tied tine
acid acne acted addict aide caddie cadet candid cane cent cite dance data date dated dead dean dent detain dice died diet dine edict edit enact iced idea neat nice tend tide tied
aced acid acne acted addict aide aided antacid ante anti antic caddie cadet candid candida candidate candied cane caned cant canted cent cine cite cited dace dance danced data date dated dead dean decant dent detain dice diced dicta died diet dine dined dint edict edit enact iced idea neat nice tend tide tided tied tine

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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 Cane. Date. Tide.

2 Aide. Dead. Neat.

3 Dance. Diet. Nice.

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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