Polywords

Mere

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

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Mere

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Reflections in Buttermere, Cumbria.

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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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emote epee exempt exert expert expo export extempore extreme meet mere mete meteor meter metre metro mope more mort mote peer perm pert peter poem poet pore port prom remote romp rope rote teem temp temper tempo tepee term tome topee tore tree tromp trope
extreme exempt expert export meteor remote temper exert meter metre metro tempo meet mere mope more peer pert poem poet pore port romp rope rote tore teem term tree
emote epee exempt exert expert expo export extempore extreme meet mere mete meteor meter metre metro mope more mort mote peer perm pert peter poem poet pore port prom remote romp rope rote teem temp temper tempo tepee term tome topee tore tree tromp trope

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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 More. Port. Remote.

2 Peer. Poet. Rope.

3 Exempt. Export. Poem.

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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