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

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Welsh Highland Railway NGG16 No. 143 was built for South African Railways in 1958, by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester. Here it is seen entering Snowdon Ranger halt.

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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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almond calm camp capon clad clam clamp clampdown clan clap claw clod clown coal coda cola cold coma cowl damn damp dawn down lamp land lawn load loam loan moan modal mown nodal nomad opal palm pawn plan plod pond wand woad wold woman
almond nomad clown clamp woman mown moan loan woad opal plod pond plan load palm pawn wand down clap claw coal clan clam calm camp dawn lamp land damp damn cold coma cowl lawn
almond calm camp capon clad clam clamp clampdown clan clap claw clod clown coal coda cola cold coma cowl damn damp dawn down lamp land lawn load loam loan moan modal mown nodal nomad opal palm pawn plan plod pond wand woad wold woman

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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 Land. Opal. Woad.

2 Clamp. Down. Palm.

3 Almond. Clan. Claw.

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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