Polywords

Tay

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

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Kinnoul Hill and the River Tay in Perth, Scotland.
© Mike McBey, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Tay

© Mike McBey, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0. Source

Kinnoul Hill and the River Tay in Perth, Scotland.

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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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acting acuity anti antic aping aunt aunty cant catnip city cuing cyan gain gait gaunt giant gnat input pacing pact pacy pain paint pang panic pant paucity paying ping pint piny pita pity pugnacity punt puny tang tangy taping ting tiny tuna tunic tying typing unit unity yang yuan
acting catnip pacing paying taping typing antic aping aunty gaunt giant input paint panic tying tunic unity aunt cant city cyan gain gait gnat pacy pact pain pang pant pint piny pity punt puny tang tiny tuna unit
acting acuity anti antic aping aunt aunty cant catnip city cuing cyan gain gait gaunt giant gnat input pacing pact pacy pain paint pang panic pant paucity paying ping pint piny pita pity pugnacity punt puny tang tangy taping ting tiny tuna tunic tying typing unit unity yang yuan

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Practice

Opposites Find in Think and Speak

Suggest words or phrases that seem opposite in meaning to each of the words below. We have suggested some possible answers; see if you can find any others.

This exercise uses words found in the accompanying puzzle.

1. Gain. 2. Giant. 3. Painful. 4. Tiny. 5. Unity.

Show Useful Words (A-Z order)

Variations: 1.instead of opposites, suggest words of similar meaning (synonyms). 2.use a word and its opposite in the same sentence. 3.suggest any 5 opposites formed by adding un-.

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