Polywords

Lean

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

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Lean

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The 113ft-high clock tower of the Albert memorial in Belfast, Northern Ireland, leans some 14ft from the vertical owing to the nature of the soil. The photo comes from the Robert French/Lawrence Collection, and the horse-drawn trams date it to about 1900.

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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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acne aeon allow allowance aloe alone anal anew call callow canal cane canoe cell cello clan claw clean clone clown coal cola coll cone cowl elan lace lance lane lawn lean loan local locale lone ocean once wall walla wane weal wean well
callow local clean ocean cello lance canoe clone canal clown alone allow loan lean lawn acne once lone wall wane wean lane lace cowl cone coal claw clan cell cane call anew aloe well
acne aeon allow allowance aloe alone anal anew call callow canal cane canoe cell cello clan claw clean clone clown coal cola coll cone cowl elan lace lance lane lawn lean loan local locale lone ocean once wall walla wane weal wean well

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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 Canoe. Coal. Cone.

2 Lace. Lane. Local.

3 Callow. Cane. Loan.

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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