Polywords

Trap

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

From the East Riding Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.

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Trap

From the East Riding Archives, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. Source
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Ponies and traps out on what looks like a cold and misty day near Walkington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The photograph is believed to date back to around 1900. Queen Victoria died the following year, and was succeeded by her son Edward VII when he was aged sixty. Edward was a popular monarch at home, and in his short reign (just nine years) he worked hard to foster friendship with old adversaries France and Russia. See Home Page.

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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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aorta apart argot atop aught aura author auto autograph gator goat goth gout graph groat group grout harp hart hoar hour hurt oath ought para part path port pour pout prat raga ragout rapt rota rough rout taro tarp thou thru thug toga tough tour trap trough trug
trough author graph apart ought rough grout group groat tough thug tour rapt rota trap rout toga thou pout harp atop aura goat gout hart pour hour hurt oath part path port trug
aorta apart argot atop aught aura author auto autograph gator goat goth gout graph groat group grout harp hart hoar hour hurt oath ought para part path port pour pout prat raga ragout rapt rota rough rout taro tarp thou thru thug toga tough tour trap trough trug

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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 Goat. Rough. Tour.

2 Apart. Rout. Trap.

3 Groat. Path. Thug.

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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