Polywords

Nene Scene

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

© Dave Fergusson, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Nene Scene

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A narrow-boat on the River Nene at Peterborough, with the Cathedral peeping round the trees on the left.

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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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elite engine geeing gene genie gent gentile gentle gilt gite glee glen glint ingle inlet legit lenient lent lien line linen ling linnet lint lite negligent niggle nine teeing teen tile tine ting tinge tingle
lenient engine niggle gentle linnet tingle elite inlet glint tinge genie linen nine teen tile lent gilt gene glee glen line lint
elite engine geeing gene genie gent gentile gentle gilt gite glee glen glint ingle inlet legit lenient lent lien line linen ling linnet lint lite negligent niggle nine teeing teen tile tine ting tinge tingle

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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 Gentle. Glee. Inlet.

2 Elite. Gene. Jinn.

3 Genie. Glint. Tingle.

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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