Polywords

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

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Rail

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Former Great Western Railway 4-6-0 No. 4936 ‘Kinlet Hall’ leaves Highley station on the Severn Valley Railway, on the way from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth. The engine is named after Kinlet Hall in Shropshire.

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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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agile airer aloe earl email emir ergo gale galore game gamier gaol gaoler gear germ girl giro glam glare gleam goal goalie goer gore gorier grail gram grim grime image lager lair lame lamer large larger largo liar lima lime limo lira lire loam lore magi mail mailer male mare marge marl meal mega mile mirage mire molar mole moral morale more ogle ogre omega oral rage rail rare real realm ream rear rearm regal rigmarole rile rime roam roar roger roil role
mirage morale galore large lager grime agile moral image realm gleam glare regal rear more role mire ogle mole roam real rail rare rage oral mile roar ogre girl germ goal gear gaol earl game gale lore mail male meal mare lair grim lame liar lime
agile airer aloe earl email emir ergo gale galore game gamier gaol gaoler gear germ girl giro glam glare gleam goal goalie goer gore gorier grail gram grim grime image lager lair lame lamer large larger largo liar lima lime limo lira lire loam lore magi mail mailer male mare marge marl meal mega mile mirage mire molar mole moral morale more ogle ogre omega oral rage rail rare real realm ream rear rearm regal rigmarole rile rime roam roar roger roil role

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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 Lager. Morale. Much.

2 Large. Mail. Mile.

3 Germ. Lame. Role.

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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