Polywords

Wren

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

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Wren

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This little fellow is a Munchique wood-wren (Henicorhina negreti), a bird first observed in the 1980s. He lives in the woods high in the western Andes of Columbia, South America.

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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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doer done donor door down downer drew drone drown endow ergo goer gone goner good goon gore gored gown gowned grew grow grower grown negro nerd node ogre order owed owned owner redo rend reword rode rodeo roger rondo rood rowed rower wend wodge wonder wood wooden wooed wooer word wore worn wren wrong wrongdoer wronged
doer done door down drew ergo gone good gown grew grow ogre owed rend rode wood word wore worn wren donor drone drown endow order owned owner rodeo rowed rower wooed wrong wonder wooden wronged
doer done donor door down downer drew drone drown endow ergo goer gone goner good goon gore gored gown gowned grew grow grower grown negro nerd node ogre order owed owned owner redo rend reword rode rodeo roger rondo rood rowed rower wend wodge wonder wood wooden wooed wooer word wore worn wren wrong wrongdoer wronged

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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 Doer. Gown. Ogre.

2 Door. Rend. Woo.

3 Drown. Grow. Wooden.

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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