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Is kluge a Scrabble word?

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

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Is kluge a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Is kluge a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word kluge is a Words With Friends word. The word kluge is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

KLUGE,KUGEL,

4-letter words (5 found)

GLUE,GULE,LEKU,LUGE,LUKE,

3-letter words (13 found)

ELK,EUK,GEL,GUE,GUL,KEG,KUE,LEG,LEK,LEU,LUG,UKE,ULE,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,GU,UG,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from kluge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of kluge

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Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word kluge. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in kluge.

Definitions and meaning of kluge

kluge

Etymology

From US military slang, possibly from German klug (“clever”), or perhaps from Dutch Low Saxon klütje (“(little) dumpling, clod”), Jutland Danish klyt (“piece of bad workmanship, klud(g)e”); compare standard Danish kludder (“mess, disorder”). (Compare English klutz.)

According to the OED, an "invented word" influenced by bodge and fudge.

Compare kludge.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kluːd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -uːdʒ

Noun

kluge (plural kluges)

  1. Something that should not work, but does.
  2. A device assembled from components intended for disparate purposes.

Usage notes

  • Today, kluge and kludge are often used as alternative spellings of the same word, although a distinction in usage can perhaps be detected: in the UK, the connotation of kludge is almost wholly negative (as befits its alleged derivation), while US usage of kluge, following its alleged German derivation, admits some fondness or admiration for the cleverness or functionality underlying a working klu(d)ge.

Synonyms

  • (something that should not work but does): see Thesaurus:workaround

Verb

kluge (third-person singular simple present kluges, present participle kluging, simple past and past participle kluged)

  1. Alternative form of kludge

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

  • kugel

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkluːɡə/

Adjective

kluge

  1. inflection of klug:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Source: wiktionary.org