Polywords

Pier

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

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Pier

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In the hour before sunset, seagulls and then starlings dance and swirl around Brighton Pier.

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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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cert chip chipper chirp chit choir chop chopper choppier chore cipher cite coir cope copier copper copter core cote crept crop echo epic epoch erotic etch ethic hector heir hero heroic hipper hippo hire hope hopper itch ochre optic other otic perch peri pert picot pier pipe piper pitch pitcher pith poet poetic pope porch pore port prep price prop prophet prophetic recto retch rice rich riot ripe rite rope rote tech their thrice tier tire topi topic topper torch tore trice trio trip tripe trope tropic
copier copper poetic heroic erotic perch chore price trice choir chirp epoch porch torch pitch crept topic rice rich crop echo epic core cope chip chop cite itch
cert chip chipper chirp chit choir chop chopper choppier chore cipher cite coir cope copier copper copter core cote crept crop echo epic epoch erotic etch ethic hector heir hero heroic hipper hippo hire hope hopper itch ochre optic other otic perch peri pert picot pier pipe piper pitch pitcher pith poet poetic pope porch pore port prep price prop prophet prophetic recto retch rice rich riot ripe rite rope rote tech their thrice tier tire topi topic topper torch tore trice trio trip tripe trope tropic

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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 Chip. Core. Creep.

2 Heroic. Price. Torch.

3 Erotic. Perch. Trice.

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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