Polywords

Hut

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

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Hut

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In the shadow of Roseberry Topping, a distinctive hill in North Yorkshire, stands this elegant building variously described as a shooting box, folly or summerhouse. The most intriguing suggestion is that it was a first experiment in a monument to Captain James Cook. Click the picture to find out more.

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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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actor arch author auto cart char chart chat coat court curt cutthroat hart hoar hour hurt oath ouch outta roach rota rout taco tact taro tarot tart taut that thou throat thru torch tort touch tour tout tract trot trout truth tutor
throat author torch tutor actor touch trout truth tract chart court that taut tart thou tout tour trot rout chat coat curt char cart arch hart hour tact rota ouch hurt oath
actor arch author auto cart char chart chat coat court curt cutthroat hart hoar hour hurt oath ouch outta roach rota rout taco tact taro tarot tart taut that thou throat thru torch tort touch tour tout tract trot trout truth tutor

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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 Court. Hurt. Tact.

2 Char. Hour. Truth.

3 Hart. Taut. Tour.

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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