Polywords

Tub

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

Flower tubs outside the Cross Keys in Gainford, County Durham.

© Stanley Howe, Geograph. CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Flower tubs outside the Cross Keys in Gainford, County Durham.

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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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abut airy arty bait batty bitty brat bray briar bruit burr bury butt butty rarity ratty ruby tarry tart tarty taut trait tray tributary tuba
tributary rarity ratty batty bitty trait briar bruit tarry abut tray taut tart butt ruby airy bury bray brat bait arty tuba
abut airy arty bait batty bitty brat bray briar bruit burr bury butt butty rarity ratty ruby tarry tart tarty taut trait tray tributary tuba

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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 Abut. Arty. Batty.

2 Airy. Ratty. Tarry.

3 Bray. Bruit. Tuba.

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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