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Is fadge a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fadge is a Scrabble US word. The word fadge is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is fadge a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fadge is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Yes. The word fadge is a Words With Friends word. The word fadge is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

FADGE,

4-letter words (6 found)

AGED,DEAF,EGAD,FADE,GADE,GAED,

3-letter words (13 found)

AGE,DAE,DAG,DEF,DEG,FAD,FAE,FAG,FED,FEG,GAD,GAE,GED,

2-letter words (10 found)

AD,AE,AG,DA,DE,EA,ED,EF,FA,FE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 31 words from fadge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of fadge

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Definitions and meaning of fadge

fadge

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fæd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ædʒ

Etymology 1

Unknown. According to Chambers, from Old English fēġan (“to join or fit together”); Liberman suggests a Middle English variant of fagot (“bundle of sticks”). Compare also Old English feċġan (“to seize, take hold, bring to”).

Verb

fadge (third-person singular simple present fadges, present participle fadging, simple past and past participle fadged)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be suitable (with or to something).
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To agree, to get along (with).
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To get on well; to cope, to thrive.
  4. (Geordie) To eat together.
  5. (Yorkshire, of a horse) To move with a gait between a jog and a trot.

Etymology 2

Uncertain, but potentially from or related to Old English faċġ (“flat-fish, plaice, flounder”).

Noun

fadge (plural fadges)

  1. (Ireland) Irish potato bread; a flat farl, griddle-baked, often served fried.
  2. (New Zealand) A wool pack, traditionally made of jute, now often synthetic.
  3. (Geordie) A small loaf or bun made with left-over dough.
  4. (Yorkshire) A gait of horses between a jog and a trot.

References

  • “fadge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • Chambers, William (1893): Chambers's English Dictionary, Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological, with Vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms
  • Liberman, Anatoly: An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction

Etymology 3

Noun

fadge (plural fadges)

  1. (UK, slang, archaic) A farthing (old coin).

Source: wiktionary.org