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Is wedge a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wedge a Scrabble UK word?

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

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

WEDGE,

4-letter words (3 found)

EDGE,GEED,WEED,

3-letter words (9 found)

DEE,DEG,DEW,EEW,EWE,GED,GEE,WED,WEE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,ED,EE,EW,WE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from wedge according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of wedge

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Definitions and meaning of wedge

wedge

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /wɛd͡ʒ/
  • Hyphenation: wedge
  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

Etymology 1

Middle English wegge (“wedge”), from Old English weċġ (“wedge”), from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

Noun

wedge (countable and uncountable, plural wedges)

  1. One of the simple machines; a piece of material, such as metal or wood, thick at one edge and tapered to a thin edge at the other for insertion in a narrow crevice, used for splitting, tightening, securing, or levering.
  2. A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
  3. (figurative) Something that creates a division, gap or distance between things.
  4. (geometry) A five-sided polyhedron with a rectangular base, two rectangular or trapezoidal sides meeting in an edge, and two triangular ends.
  5. (architecture) A voussoir, one of the wedge-shaped blocks forming an arch or vault.
  6. (archaic) A flank of cavalry acting to split some portion of an opposing army, charging in an inverted V formation.
  7. A group of geese, swans, or other birds when they are in flight in a V formation.
  8. (golf) A type of iron club used for short, high trajectories.
  9. One of a pair of wedge-heeled shoes.
  10. (obsolete) An ingot.
  11. (obsolete, slang, uncountable, by extension) Silver or items made of silver collectively.
  12. (colloquial, British, countable, uncountable, by extension) A quantity of money.
  13. (US, regional) A sandwich made on a long, cylindrical roll.
  14. One of the basic elements that make up cuneiform writing, a single triangular impression made with the corner of a reed stylus.
  15. Any symbol shaped like a V in some given orientation.
    1. (typography, US) A háček.
    2. (phonetics) The IPA character ʌ, which denotes an open-mid back unrounded vowel.
    3. (mathematics) The symbol ∧, denoting a meet (infimum) operation or logical conjunction.
    4. (music) A hairpin, an elongated horizontal V-shaped sign indicating a crescendo or decrescendo.
  16. (meteorology) A barometric ridge; an elongated region of high atmospheric pressure between two low-pressure areas.
  17. (meteorology) A wedge tornado.
  18. (finance) A market trend characterized by a contracting range in prices coupled with an upward trend in prices (a rising wedge) or a downward trend in prices (a falling wedge).
Synonyms
  • (group of geese): skein
  • (phonetics: IPA character ⟨ʌ⟩): turned v
Derived terms
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Verb

wedge (third-person singular simple present wedges, present participle wedging, simple past and past participle wedged)

  1. (transitive) To support or secure using a wedge.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To force into a narrow gap.
  3. (transitive) To pack (people or animals) together tightly into a mass.
  4. (transitive) To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles.
  5. (computing, informal, intransitive) Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
  6. (transitive) To cleave with a wedge.
  7. (transitive) To force or drive with a wedge.
  8. (transitive) To shape into a wedge.
Derived terms
  • wedge up
Translations

Etymology 2

From Wedgewood, surname of the person who occupied this position on the first list of 1828.

Noun

wedge (plural wedges)

  1. (UK, Cambridge University slang) The person whose name stands lowest on the list of the classical tripos.
Synonyms
  • wooden wedge
See also
  • wooden spoon

French

Etymology

English wedge.

Pronunciation

Noun

wedge m (plural wedges)

  1. (golf) wedge

Source: wiktionary.org