Polywords

Seraph

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

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Seraph

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An icon of a seraph, high up in the vaulted ceiling of the Byzantine church of the Panagia Ekatontapyliani on the island of Paros, Greece.

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© Olaf Tausch, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.

An icon of a seraph, high up in the vaulted ceiling of the Byzantine church of the Panagia Ekatontapyliani on the island of Paros, Greece.

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 agile ailing alien align alit alive angel angle ante anti anvil eating elan entail evil gain gait gale gate gave gavel gelatin genial genii genital gent giant gilt gite give given glean glen glint gnat ignite ingle inlet invite lain lane late lave laving lean leant leat leaving legit lent lien lignite line ling lint lite live liven living nail naive native nave navel neat tail tailing tale tang tangle teal tile tiling tine ting tinge tingle vain vale valent valet valeting vane veal vegan veil veiling vein venal venial vent vial vigil vigilant vigilante vile vine vintage vital
agent agile alien align alive angel angle anvil eating entail evil gain gait gale gate gave genial giant gilt give glint gnat ignite ingle inlet invite lain lane late lean leant lent line live living nail naive native nave neat tail tale tangle tile tinge tingle vain vale valet vegan veil vein vent vigil vigilant vigilante vile vine vintage vital
agent agile ailing alien align alit alive angel angle ante anti anvil eating elan entail evil gain gait gale gate gave gavel gelatin genial genii genital gent giant gilt gite give given glean glen glint gnat ignite ingle inlet invite lain lane late lave laving lean leant leat leaving legit lent lien lignite line ling lint lite live liven living nail naive native nave navel neat tail tailing tale tang tangle teal tile tiling tine ting tinge tingle vain vale valent valet valeting vane veal vegan veil veiling vein venal venial vent vial vigil vigilant vigilante vile vine vintage vital

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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 Gale. Lie. Valet.

2 . Lend. Vital.

3 Agile. Gild. Veil.

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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