Polywords

Wader

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

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Wader

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A grey phalarope (phalaropus fulicarius), not a British resident, but frequently blown onto the southwest coast in high winds; the same bird is called a red phalarope in the US, but the red is characteristic of the breeding season only. The female is the more colourful of the sexes, and the male bears the responsibility of incubating the eggs and rearing the chicks.

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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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adore adorn aeon alder aloe alone anew anode anon awed dale dare darn dawn deal dean dear doer dole done dowel down downer draw drawl drawn drew drone drown earl earn elan eland endow enrol laden land landowner lane lard lawn lead lean learn lend lewd load loader loan loaned lode lone loner lord lore lowed lower near neon nerd nodal node none olde olden older onward oral ordeal owed owned owner radon rand read real redo reload renal rend renown road roan rode role rowan rowed wade wader wand wander wane waned ward warden warn warned weal wean wear weld wend woad wold wonder word wore world worn wren

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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 Dawn. Lend. Onward.

2 None. Ride. Wren.

3 Alone. Loan. Role.

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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