Polywords

Tram

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

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Tram

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At the Home Farm, in Beamish Museum in County Durham, Tram No. 114 is passed by a replica Daimler bus, on its way to the Colliery.

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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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afar after aftermath ahem area earth fame fare farm fart fate father fatter fear feat feta frame frat fret hare harem harm hart hate hater hatter hear heart heat heft mare mart mate mater matt matte matter meat raft rate ream rhea tame tamer tare tart tater team tear teat term that theft them therm threat tram treat
father hatter threat matter harem heart frame treat theft after earth rate tram meat raft team tear term tart tame that them heat fate fear feat farm area fame fare fret afar mare hear hate hare harm mate
afar after aftermath ahem area earth fame fare farm fart fate father fatter fear feat feta frame frat fret hare harem harm hart hate hater hatter hear heart heat heft mare mart mate mater matt matte matter meat raft rate ream rhea tame tamer tare tart tater team tear teat term that theft them therm threat tram treat

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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 Fame. Tame. Tear.

2 Area. Matter. Raft.

3 Frame. Hate. Theft.

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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