Polywords

Mead

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

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Mead

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A kingfisher at Rye Meads Nature Reserve in Hertfordshire.

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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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aced acid acme acne admen admin aide aimed amen amend amid anemic aped apiece came camp camped cane caned cape caped cede cine cinema dace dame damn damp dampen dance dean decamp deem deep demean dene denim dice dime dine emend encamp encamped endemic enema epic iced idea idem impedance impede mace made maid maiden main mane manic mead mean meanie media median medic menace menaced mend mica mice mien mince minced mind mine mined name named nape neap need nice niece pace paced paid pain pained pandemic pane panic peace pecan peed pence piece pieced pied pine pined
maiden cinema menace piece pence peace panic media niece medic emend mince amend dance need dice came name camp mine mind nice pain pace amid paid amen pane aide pine cane mice maid dine deep epic idea acid mace made damp main mane mean dame cede cape mend
aced acid acme acne admen admin aide aimed amen amend amid anemic aped apiece came camp camped cane caned cape caped cede cine cinema dace dame damn damp dampen dance dean decamp deem deep demean dene denim dice dime dine emend encamp encamped endemic enema epic iced idea idem impedance impede mace made maid maiden main mane manic mead mean meanie media median medic menace menaced mend mica mice mien mince minced mind mine mined name named nape neap need nice niece pace paced paid pain pained pandemic pane panic peace pecan peed pence piece pieced pied pine pined

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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 Acid. Medic. Pay.

2 Cede. Dine. Media.

3 Come. Mean. Pine.

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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