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WEDGE

5 letters, 10 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What WEDGE Means

  1. noun: any shape that is triangular in cross section
  2. noun: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
  3. verb: put, fix, force, or implant“lodge a bullet in the table”
  4. verb: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space“I squeezed myself into the corner”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

WEDGE 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 W4 E1 D2 G2 E1.

Words Made From The Letters In WEDGE

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 (3)

3 letter words (8)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing WEDGE

WEDGE appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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