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Is dodge a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dodge is a Scrabble US word. The word dodge is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is dodge a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dodge is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is dodge a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word dodge is a Words With Friends word. The word dodge is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

DODGE,

4-letter words (2 found)

DOGE,EDDO,

3-letter words (11 found)

DEG,DOD,DOE,DOG,EGO,GED,GEO,GOD,GOE,ODD,ODE,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,DO,ED,GO,OD,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 21 words from dodge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of dodge

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Definitions and meaning of dodge

dodge

Etymology

Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɒd͡ʒ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /dɑd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒdʒ

Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
  2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.
  3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
  4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
  5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

Synonyms

  • (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

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Translations

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

  1. An act of dodging.
  2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
  3. (slang) A line of work.

Derived terms

  • scaldrum dodge

Translations

Adjective

dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge)

  1. (Australia, British, colloquial) Dodgy.

Source: wiktionary.org