Polywords

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

The Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament, midnight December 31st 2011 / January 1st 2012.

© Chris Downer, Geograph. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

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The Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament, midnight December 31st 2011 / January 1st 2012.

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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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erupt euro nope note onto open opportune outer outre pent pert poet pone poop poor pope pore porn porno port pour pout prep prone pronto prop proton prune punt punter pure rent root rope rote rout route rune runt tenor tern tone toner topper tore torn tour troop trope troupe true tune tuner turn unto upon upper uproot
opportune uproot troupe outer prone upper tuner troop tenor route prune erupt port poet note tore torn tour true tune pert turn unto upon pent tone runt poor pout open onto punt pure pour rent pore rope rote rout pope rune root
erupt euro nope note onto open opportune outer outre pent pert poet pone poop poor pope pore porn porno port pour pout prep prone pronto prop proton prune punt punter pure rent root rope rote rout route rune runt tenor tern tone toner topper tore torn tour troop trope troupe true tune tuner turn unto upon upper uproot

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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 Outer. Prune. Rend.

2 Pope. Prone. Troupe.

3 Opportune. Tear. Tone.

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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