Polywords

Well

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

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Well

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A black cat at the St Photini Greek Orthodox Monastery in Nablus, Israel. The church is built around the site of Jacob’s Well, where according to John 4:5-29 Jesus Christ met a much-married Samaritan woman, and talked to her about the water of life. Tradition records her name as Photini.

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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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lilo lire lope lore lower lowlier peri peril pier pile pill pillow pole poll pore power prole prow prowl rile rill ripe roil role roll rope weir well wile will willow willpower wipe wiper wire wore
willow pillow prowl lower peril power weir rope will well wile role wipe wire roll prow ripe pore poll pole pill pile pier peri lore lope wore
lilo lire lope lore lower lowlier peri peril pier pile pill pillow pole poll pore power prole prow prowl rile rill ripe roil role roll rope weir well wile will willow willpower wipe wiper wire wore

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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 Lower. Prowl. Ripe.

2 Pole. Roll. Wile.

3 Pill. Power. Wipe.

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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