edge
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When edge helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
D E G
Two-Letter Start
ED
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
GE
Check this pattern late
- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- ED start
- GE ending
- repeated letters
Try it when
- edge is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include d, e, g plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (E x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The GE ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the ED start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
The boundary line of a surface.
noun
A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices of a polygon; the place where two faces of a polyhedron meet.
noun
An advantage.
"I have the edge on him."
noun
The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe; that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc.
noun
A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
"He is standing on the edge of a precipice."
noun
Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
noun
The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time)
"in the edge of evening"
noun
A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
noun
A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
noun
In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of inevitability, or climax; see also edging.
verb
To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged the book across the table."
verb
To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
"He edged away from her."
verb
(usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
verb
To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
verb
To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.
verb
To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
verb
To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
verb
To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
verb
To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.