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

An old packhorse bridge spanning the River Dulnain near Carrbridge in Scotland.

© Ralph Greig, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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An old packhorse bridge spanning the River Dulnain near Carrbridge in Scotland.

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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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cone convene convener core corn cove coven cover cree crone encore even ever neon nerve never none once oven over recon reconvene rove veer veneer
reconvene convene veneer encore coven cover crone nerve never once veer rove over oven cone none neon even cove corn core ever
cone convene convener core corn cove coven cover cree crone encore even ever neon nerve never none once oven over recon reconvene rove veer veneer

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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 Coven. Crone. Nerve.

2 Convene. Cove. Cover.

3 Even. Never. Veneer.

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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