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Burn

Make as many words as you can from the letters of a nine-letter word, making sure you use the highlighted letter. Can you beat our score?
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Killhope Burn in County Durham, a tributary of the River Wear. ‘Burn’ is a dialect word for a small stream, chiefly used in Scotland and Northern England, and derives from Old English ‘burna’.

Burn

Make words using the letters shown in the grid. Your words should be four or more letters in length. All your words must include the highlighted letter in the centre. Tap on any letter to use it for your word.

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butter turtle butler blunt burnt brunt utter brute true tent bent tube turn tune blue lent blur burn lure rent rule belt lute
belt bent blue bluer blunt blunter blur blurt brunt brute bunt burn burnt butler butt butte butter lent lube lure lute nett nutter rebut rent rube ruble rule rune runt tent tern true tube tuber tune tuner turbulent turn turtle tutu untrue utter

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