Polywords

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

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Cygnets hitch a ride on their mother’s back, at Mottisfont in Hampshire.

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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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alien alit anent ante anti elan elfin entail fail fain faint fate feat feint felt feta fetal fiat file filet final finale fine finite flan flat flea flint flit inane infant infantile inflate inlet innate innit lain lane late leaf lean leant leat left lent lien life lift line linen linnet lint lite nail neat nine tail tale teal tile tine
alien entail fail faint fate feat feint felt file final finale fine finite flan flat flea flint flit inane infant inflate inlet innate lain lane late leaf lean leant left lent life lift line linen lint nail neat nine tail tale teal tile
alien alit anent ante anti elan elfin entail fail fain faint fate feat feint felt feta fetal fiat file filet final finale fine finite flan flat flea flint flit inane infant infantile inflate inlet innate innit lain lane late leaf lean leant leat left lent lien life lift line linen linnet lint lite nail neat nine tail tale teal tile 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 Flint. Leave. Lie.

2 Finite. Flan. Inflate.

3 Inlet. Left. Linen.

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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