Polywords

Ring

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

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‘Long Meg and her Daughters’ is an ancient stone circle in Cumbria, from about 1500 BC. Legend says that Meg (the tall red sandstone pillar) and her daughters (the granite circle) were turned to stone for conducting pagan rites on the Lord’s Day, and also that one cannot count the stones from within the circle and get the same number twice. More at VisitCumbria.

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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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agent agree anent anger ante anti antigen eager earn earning eaten eater eating egret engine enrage enter entering entire gain gainer gait gaiter gannet garnet gate gear gene genera genie genre gent gentian giant girt gite gnat grain gran granite grannie grant grate gratin great green greet grin grit inane inert ingrate innate inner integer inter intern irate near nearing neat neaten neater negate nine nitre rage rain ranee rang range rani rant ranting rate rating reagent regain regent regnant reign rein rennet rent renting retain retina retinae ring rite tang tangerine tangier tanner tare tarn tear tearing teeing teen tenner tern tier tiger tine ting tinge tire train trainee tree triage trig
agent agree anger eager earn eaten engine enrage enter entire gain gate gear giant grain granite grant grate great green greet grin grit inner irate near neat nine rage rain rang range rate regent reign rein rent retain ring rite tang tear tier tiger tinge tire train trainee tree
agent agree anent anger ante anti antigen eager earn earning eaten eater eating egret engine enrage enter entering entire gain gainer gait gaiter gannet garnet gate gear gene genera genie genre gent gentian giant girt gite gnat grain gran granite grannie grant grate gratin great green greet grin grit inane inert ingrate innate inner integer inter intern irate near nearing neat neaten neater negate nine nitre rage rain ranee rang range rani rant ranting rate rating reagent regain regent regnant reign rein rennet rent renting retain retina retinae ring rite tang tangerine tangier tanner tare tarn tear tearing teeing teen tenner tern tier tiger tine ting tinge tire train trainee tree triage trig

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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 Agent. Enrage. Tree.

2 Entire. Irate. Train.

3 Gear. Granite. Neat.

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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