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Is hinge a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word hinge is a Scrabble US word. The word hinge is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is hinge a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word hinge is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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5-letter words (3 found)

EHING,HINGE,NEIGH,

4-letter words (3 found)

GIEN,HING,NIGH,

3-letter words (11 found)

ENG,GEN,GHI,GIE,GIN,HEN,HIE,HIN,ING,NEG,NIE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EH,EN,GI,HE,HI,IN,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 25 words from hinge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of hinge

hinge ihnge hnige nhige inhge nihge higne ihgne hgine ghine ighne gihne hngie nhgie hgnie ghnie nghie gnhie inghe nighe ignhe ginhe ngihe gnihe hineg ihneg hnieg nhieg inheg niheg hieng iheng heing ehing iehng eihng hneig nheig henig ehnig nehig enhig inehg niehg ienhg einhg neihg enihg higen ihgen hgien ghien ighen gihen hiegn ihegn heign ehign iehgn eihgn hgein ghein hegin ehgin gehin eghin igehn giehn ieghn eighn geihn egihn hngei nhgei hgnei ghnei nghei gnhei hnegi nhegi hengi ehngi nehgi enhgi hgeni gheni hegni ehgni gehni eghni ngehi gnehi neghi enghi genhi egnhi ingeh nigeh igneh gineh ngieh gnieh inegh niegh iengh eingh neigh enigh igenh gienh iegnh eignh geinh eginh ngeih gneih negih engih genih egnih

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Definitions and meaning of hinge

hinge

Etymology

From Middle English henge, from Old English *henġ (“hinge”), compare Old English henġe- in henġeclif (“overhanging cliff”), Old English henġen (“hanging; that upon which a thing is hung”), from Proto-West Germanic *hangiju. Akin to Scots heenge (“hinge”), Saterland Frisian Hänge (“hinge”), Dutch heng (“door handle”), Low German henge (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Middle Dutch henghe, hanghe (“a hook, hinge, handle”), Scots hingel (“any attachment by which something is hung or fastened”), Dutch hengel (“hook”), geheng (“hinge”), hengsel (“handle”), Danish hængsel (“hinge”), dialectal German Hängel (“hook, joint”), German Henkel (“handle, hook”), Old English hōn (“to hang”), hangian (“to cause to hang, hang up”). More at hang.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hĭnj, IPA(key): /ˈhɪnd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Noun

hinge (plural hinges)

  1. A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
  2. A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
  3. A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
  4. A principle, or a point in time, on which subsequent reasonings or events depend.
    This argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
  5. (statistics) The median of the upper or lower half of a batch, sample, or probability distribution.
  6. One of the four cardinal points, east, west, north, or south.
  7. A movement that presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
  8. In polyamory, a person connected emotionally or sexually to two others who are not connected to each other.
    Synonym: swing

Synonyms

  • (device upon which a door hangs): har
  • (statistics): quartile

Meronyms

  • (device upon which a door hangs): pintel

Derived terms

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Verb

hinge (third-person singular simple present hinges, present participle hinging or hingeing, simple past and past participle hinged)

  1. (transitive) To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
  2. (Should we move, merge or split(+) this sense?) (intransitive, with on or upon) To depend on something.
  3. (transitive, archaeology) The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
  4. (obsolete) To bend.
  5. To move or already be positioned in such a fashion that it presents itself as rotation when an off-centre fixed point is taken into account.
    Synonym: swing

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Translations

Anagrams

  • ehing, neigh

Dutch

Verb

hinge

  1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of hangen

Estonian

Noun

hinge

  1. genitive singular of hing
  2. partitive singular of hing
  3. illative singular of hing

German

Pronunciation

Verb

hinge

  1. first/third-person singular subjunctive II of hängen

Middle Dutch

Verb

hinge

  1. first/third-person singular past subjunctive of hangen

Middle English

Noun

hinge

  1. Alternative form of henge

Source: wiktionary.org