What HEDGE Means
- verb: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)“He dodged the issue”
- verb: hinder or restrict with or as if with a hedge“The animals were hedged in”
- noun: a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- noun: any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HEDGE is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 E1 D2 G2 E1.
Words Made From The Letters In HEDGE
15 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (5)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing HEDGE
HEDGE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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