Polywords

Poem

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

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Poem

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‘I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree’ wrote American poet Alfred Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) in 1914, the year the Great War began. He was killed by a sniper at the Second Battle of the Marne four years later. The Bowthorpe Oak, at Bowthorpe Park Farm near Manthorpe in Lincolnshire, is thought to be over 1000 years old, making it a contemporary of King Ethelred the Unready and King Cnut (Canute), and the oldest oak tree in England.

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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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emperor error fore form former free freer from mere mope more peer perform performer perm poem pore prefer prof prom reef refer reform reformer romp rope
perform emperor former prefer reform refer error romp fore reef poem pore free form peer more mope mere from rope
emperor error fore form former free freer from mere mope more peer perform performer perm poem pore prefer prof prom reef refer reform reformer romp rope

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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 Former. Free. Perform.

2 Form. Mope. Poem.

3 Fore. Mere. Much.

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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