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

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

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6-letter words (4 found)

GLEDES,GLEEDS,LEDGES,SLEDGE,

5-letter words (12 found)

DELES,EDGES,GELDS,GLEDE,GLEDS,GLEED,GLEES,LEDES,LEDGE,LEGES,SEDGE,SEELD,

4-letter words (25 found)

DEES,DEGS,DELE,DELS,EDGE,EELS,ELDS,ELSE,GEDS,GEED,GEES,GELD,GELS,GLED,GLEE,LEDE,LEED,LEES,LEGS,SEED,SEEL,SELD,SELE,SLED,SLEE,

3-letter words (18 found)

DEE,DEG,DEL,EDS,EEL,ELD,ELS,GED,GEE,GEL,LED,LEE,LEG,LES,SED,SEE,SEG,SEL,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,ES,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 65 words from sledge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sledge

sledge

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /slɛd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

Etymology 1

From Middle English slegge, from Old English sleċġ (“sledgehammer; mallet”), from Proto-Germanic *slagjǭ. Cognate with Dutch slegge (“sledge”), Swedish slägga (“sledge”), Norwegian Bokmål slegge (“sledge”), Norwegian Nynorsk sleggje (“sledge”), Icelandic sleggja (“sledge”), German Schlägel.

Noun

sledge (plural sledges)

  1. A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
Synonyms
  • (long handled maul or hammer): forehammer, sledgehammer
Derived terms
  • about sledge
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Verb

sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)

  1. To hit with a sledgehammer.

Etymology 2

Dialectal Dutch sleedse, from Middle Dutch sleedse, from the root of sled.

Noun

sledge (plural sledges)

  2. A low sled drawn by animals, typically on snow, ice or grass.
  4. (British) any type of sled or sleigh.
    • 1716, Myles Davies, Athenae Britannicae: Or, A Critical History of the Oxford and Cambridge Writers And Writings...Part I [the full title stretches for 70 words] reporting a passage in "Nicholas Sanders's Seditious Pamphlet" De Schismate Anglicano, &c (1585)
      Ty'd upon the Sledge, a Papist and a Protestant in front, being two very disparate and antipathetick Companions, was a very ridiculous Science of Cruelty, even worst than Death it self (says he).
  6. A card game resembling all fours and seven-up; old sledge.
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Verb

sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)

  1. To drag or draw a sledge.
  2. To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge.
    • 2006, Godfrey (EDT) Baldacchino, Extreme Tourism: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands
      Some of these may be closely associated with the day-to-day lifestyle of such communities — marine activities (fishing, wildlife viewing), mountain activities (abseiling, climbing, hunting) or winter sports (dog sledging).

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Etymology 3

From Sledge (“a surname”), influenced by sledgehammer. First attested in the 1960s in Australian English.

According to Ian Chappell, originated in Adelaide during the 1963/4 or 1964/5 Sheffield Shield season. A cricketer who swore in the presence of a woman was taken to be as subtle as a sledgehammer (meaning unsubtle) and was called “Percy” or “Sledge”, from singer Percy Sledge (whose song When a Man Loves a Woman was a hit at the time). Directing insults or obscenities at the opposition team then became known as sledging.

Verb

sledge (third-person singular simple present sledges, present participle sledging, simple past and past participle sledged)

  1. (chiefly cricket, Australia) To verbally insult or abuse an opponent in order to distract them (considered unsportsmanlike).

Noun

sledge (plural sledges)

  1. (chiefly cricket, Australia) An instance of sledging.
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Anagrams

  • edgels, gledes, gleeds, ledges

Source: wiktionary.org