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Rapid Transit

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

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Rapid Transit

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Tynemouth metro station near Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a spacious, elegant building constructed in 1882. It has recently been restored, and is home to a weekly market.

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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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cert cite coir come comer comet core corgi corm cortege cote coterie cree crime egret emetic emigre emir emit emote erect ergo erotic geometric germ giro girt gite goer goiter goitre gore greet grim grime grit item meet mere merge merit mete meteor meteoric meter metier metre metric metro mice micro mire mite mitre more mort mortice mote ogre omit otic recite recto regime remit remote rice rime riot rite rote teem term tier tiger time timer tire tome tore tree trice trig trim trio

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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 Emit. Ergo. Metro.

2 Grime. Merit. Mire.

3 Miter. Recite. Trim.

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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