Polywords

Meow

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

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Meow

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A one-month-old kitten.

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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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acer acme acre aver avow came cameo care carve cave caver ciao coir coma come comer core corm cove cover cower cowrie cram crave cream crew crime crow emir mace macro mare meow miaow mica mice micro microwave mire more move mover movie mower over race rave ream rice rime roam rove vicar vice view voice waive waiver warm wave waver wavier wear weir wire wore worm wove
movie voice mower crime vicar cream crave mover cover cower waive carve cameo worm over wore wire race rave weir rice view roam rove wear vice wave warm move core acre aver avow came care cave coma come more cove cram crew crow mace mare meow mice mire wove
acer acme acre aver avow came cameo care carve cave caver ciao coir coma come comer core corm cove cover cower cowrie cram crave cream crew crime crow emir mace macro mare meow miaow mica mice micro microwave mire more move mover movie mower over race rave ream rice rime roam rove vicar vice view voice waive waiver warm wave waver wavier wear weir wire wore worm wove

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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 Carve. Cream. Warm.

2 Core. Race. Rive.

3 Cram. Crow. Vicar.

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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