Polywords

Ledge

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

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Ledge

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A waterfall on Nant Tawr Fechan beside by Beacons Way in the Fforest Fawr (Great Forest) in South Wales, near to Glyntawe, Powys. The area is known in English as the Great Forest of Brecknock, and was at one time a royal hunting ground. It was the Norman kings who introduced the idea of a ‘forest’, that is, an area of open space ‘outside’ (Latin, ‘foris’, related to ‘foreign’) those legally accessible for ordinary people. Being a ‘forest’ had little to do with being heavily wooded, and several ‘royal forests’, like the Fforest Fawr, lay in upland areas with very few trees.

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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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deign deli deluge dene dine duel dueling dune dung edge elide eliding elude eluding endue geed geld gelid gene genie genii gild glee glen glide glue glued guide guideline guild guile idle idling indie indulge ingle ledge legend lend lied lien line lined ling luge lung lunge lunged need nude nudge
indulge legend deluge glide deign guile genie guild guide elide lunge nudge endue elude ledge need nude lied line lend lung glue dune duel dine edge glee glen gild gene idle
deign deli deluge dene dine duel dueling dune dung edge elide eliding elude eluding endue geed geld gelid gene genie genii gild glee glen glide glue glued guide guideline guild guile idle idling indie indulge ingle ledge legend lend lied lien line lined ling luge lung lunge lunged need nude nudge

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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 Elude. Lied. Nudge.

2 Deign. Glen. Line.

3 Dune. Guild. Idle.

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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