Polywords

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

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A hairpin bend on the A4069 near Capel Gwynfe, Carmarthenshire, north of Swansea. It is known as ‘Cuckoo Bend’. Photographer Nigel Davies identifies it as a favourite stretch of road for TV car shows such as Fifth Gear.

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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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cent cert clone clot clout clue colt cone cope copter core corn cornet corpulent cote count counter coup coupe couple couplet court crept crone crop croup cruel cruet cult cure curl curt cute cuter ecru enrol erupt euro lent lento letup lone loner lope lore lour lout lucre lure lute nope note once open opulent ounce outer outre pelt pent pert petrol plot poet pole ponce pone pore porn port pounce pour pout prole prone prune puce punt punter pure purl recon recount recoup recto rent role rope rote rout route rule rune runt tenor tern tone toner tore torn tour trope trounce troupe truce true tune tuner turn ulcer uncle unto upon

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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 Curl. Once. Ulcer.

2 Cult. Lore. Truce.

3 Poet. Pole. Upon.

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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