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HEDGE

5 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

HEDGE is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

HEDGES-s 3 HEDGING 5 HEDGED-d 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

HEDGINGS 11 HEDGINGLY 11
noun
  1. A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.
    • He trims the hedge once a week.
  2. A barrier (often consisting of a line of persons or objects) to protect someone or something from harm.
  3. CornwallDevonUKA mound of earth, stone- or turf-faced, often topped with bushes, used as a fence between any two portions of land.
  4. A noncommittal or intentionally ambiguous statement.
  5. Contract or arrangement reducing one's exposure to risk (for example the risk of price movements or interest rate movements).
    • The asset class acts as a hedge.
    • A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses/gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. In simple language, a hedge is used to reduce any substantial losses/gains suffered by an individual or an organization.
  6. IrelandUKattributivefigurativelyWith indication of a person's upbringing, or professional activities, taking place by the side of the road; being third-rate, poor, shoddy.
    • He then traced them from place to place, till at last he found two of them drinking together, with a third person, at a hedge-tavern near Aldersgate.
verb
  1. transitiveTo enclose with a hedge or hedges.
  2. transitiveTo obstruct or surround.
  3. transitiveTo offset the risk associated with.
  4. ambitransitiveTo avoid verbal commitment.
    • He carefully hedged his statements with weasel words.
  5. intransitiveTo construct or repair a hedge.
  6. intransitiveTo reduce one's exposure to risk.