Polywords

Perch

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

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Perch

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The monasteries of St Nicholas Anapafsas (left), and, for women, St Barbara Rousanou, perched among the rocks of the Meteora in Thessaly, mainland Greece. Both are famous for their beautiful iconography.

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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 ache acre acute apace apart arch area aura cape caper capture carat care caret carp carpet cart cater cert chap chapter char chare chart chat chateau cheap cheat chute crap crape crate crept cruet curate cure curt cute cuter each earth ecru erupt etch hare harp hart hate hater heap hear heart heat hurt pace pact para parachute parch pare part patch pate pater path peach pear peat perch pert prat prate preach puce pure race rape rapt rate reach react reap recap retch rhea tape taper tare tarp taupe teach teacup tear tech thru trace trachea trap truce true

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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 Crate. Each. Peat.

2 Pert. Reap. Trap.

3 Ache. Cart. Teacup.

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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