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

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The station at Frosterley on the Weardale Railway in county Durham, an eighteen-mile-long ‘heritage’ line running a mixture of steam and diesel-powered trains through gentle countryside.

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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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cine clef clue elfin ennui feel feline fence fennel file fine flee flue fuel funnel influence lice lien life line linen nice niece nine nuclei uncle
feline fennel funnel niece linen fence uncle elfin nine nice life line flue feel clue clef file fine fuel flee lice
cine clef clue elfin ennui feel feline fence fennel file fine flee flue fuel funnel influence lice lien life line linen nice niece nine nuclei uncle

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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 Clef. Fuel. Funnel.

2 Fence. Fennel. Linen.

3 Elfin. Flee. Flue.

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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