Polywords

Nape

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

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Nape

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Looking down from Napes Needle and Great Gable past Wasdale Head towards Wastwater in the Cumbrian Lake District.

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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 acne acre airy cairn cane cape caper care carp cine crane crap crape cure cyan earn ecru epic incur inure nacre nape narc neap near nice nicer pace pacey pacier pacy pain pair pane panic pare payer pear pecan pecuniary penury peri picayune pier pincer pine piney piny piracy prance pray prey price pricey pricy prince prune puce punier puny pure pyre race racy rain rainy rani rape rapine reap recap rein repay rice ripe ripen ruin rune runic unripe uric urine yarn year yearn yuan
prance piracy prince pincer crane panic prune price pecan incur repay yearn ripen year puny rain pure race reap rein rice ripe ruin prey acre airy cane cape care cure earn epic nape neap pray near nice pace pain pair pane pear pier pine
acer acne acre airy cairn cane cape caper care carp cine crane crap crape cure cyan earn ecru epic incur inure nacre nape narc neap near nice nicer pace pacey pacier pacy pain pair pane panic pare payer pear pecan pecuniary penury peri picayune pier pincer pine piney piny piracy prance pray prey price pricey pricy prince prune puce punier puny pure pyre race racy rain rainy rani rape rapine reap recap rein repay rice ripe ripen ruin rune runic unripe uric urine yarn year yearn yuan

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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 Pecan. Pincer. Ruin.

2 Crane. Earn. Near.

3 Cane. Epic. Pray.

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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