Polywords

Trail

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

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Trail

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A gated stile in the Cumbria Way near Little Langdale in Cumbria, a couple of miles west of Ambleside and at the foot of Park Fell.

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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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airer airy alert alit alley ally alter artery artillery arty earl early irate lair laity late lately later layer leat liar lilt lily lira lire lite literal literary litre lyre rail raillery rally rare rarely rarity rate real reality really realty rear relay rely retail retrial retry rile rill rite tail tale tall taller tally tare tarry teal tear tell telly terry tier tile tiler till tiller tire trail trailer tray trey trial trier trill tyre year yell yeti
literary literal retrial trailer reality rarely retail tiller rarity lately really alley alter rally trail later tally early laity layer alert trial tell tear till year yell yeti tyre tray tile tall tire tier rear lily lilt liar earl lair late ally lyre rite tail rely airy rail rare rate real tale
airer airy alert alit alley ally alter artery artillery arty earl early irate lair laity late lately later layer leat liar lilt lily lira lire lite literal literary litre lyre rail raillery rally rare rarely rarity rate real reality really realty rear relay rely retail retrial retry rile rill rite tail tale tall taller tally tare tarry teal tear tell telly terry tier tile tiler till tiller tire trail trailer tray trey trial trier trill tyre year yell yeti

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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. Alert. 2. Alter. 3. Earlier. 4. Early. 5. Late. 6. Later. 7. Retail. 8. Tail. 9. Trail.

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 dis-.

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