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edge

/ɛd͡ʒ/noun, verb

edge is spelled E-D-G-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, edge means “The boundary line of a surface” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of edge is edges.

How many letters and syllables are in edge?

Letters4: E-D-G-E
Syllables1
In writing55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is edge?

Edge appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce edge?

  • US /ɛd͡ʒ/
  • Australia /ed͡ʒ/

Edge has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-edge.ogg, En-au-edge.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with edge?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as edge from its last stressed vowel (/ɛdʒ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of edge

  • edges plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • edging participle, present
  • edged participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does edge mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The boundary line of a surface.

  2. 2

    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.

  3. 3

    An advantage.

    I have the edge on him.

  4. 4

    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.

    Speaking with a metallic edge to her voice.

  5. 5

    A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.

    The cup is right on the edge of the table.

  6. 6

    Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.

    After the timeout there was a new edge to the team's play.

  7. 7

    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

  8. 8

    A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.

verb

  1. 1

    To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    He edged the book across the table.

  2. 2

    To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.

    He edged away from her.

  3. 3

    To win by a small margin.

  4. 4

    To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.

  5. 5

    To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric or gas-powered lawn edger.

  6. 6

    To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.

  7. 7

    To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.

  8. 8

    To form a border to; to enclose, to border.

noun

as EDGE
  1. 1

    Acronym of Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution.

  2. 2

    Explain, demonstrate, guide, enable; an educating method.

  3. 3

    Notation for an edge rusher.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Edge in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbord (boundary line of a surface), côté (joining line between two vertices of a polygon), arête (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet), carre (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)
GermanRand (boundary line of a surface), Seite, Kante (joining line between two vertices of a polygon), Vorsprung, Vorteil (an advantage), schieben (to move something gradually)
Portuguesemargem (boundary line of a surface), aresta (joining line between two vertices of a polygon), fio, gume (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)
Spanishorilla, borde (boundary line of a surface), lado (joining line between two vertices of a polygon), arista (place where two faces of a polyhedron meet), filo (thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does edge come from?

From Middle English egge, from Old English eċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). See also Dutch egge, German Ecke, Danish æg, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish egg; also Welsh hogi (“to sharpen, hone”), Latin aciēs (“sharp”), acus (“needle”), Latvian ašs, ass (“sharp”), Ancient Greek ἀκίς (akís, “needle”), ἀκμή (akmḗ, “point”), and Persian آس (âs, “grinding stone”)).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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