Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "wedge" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

wedge door

Derived Terms

Sikkim wedge-billed babbler Texas wedge accretionary wedge approach wedge cross-wedge drive a wedge drive a wedge between edge-of-the-wedge theorem flying wedge fox wedge gap wedge hand wedge ice wedge lob wedge pitching wedge potato wedge salt wedge sand wedge shoe wedge small end of the wedge spherical wedge substorm current wedge tax wedge thin edge of the wedge thin end of the wedge wedge gage wedge gauge wedge gear wedge issue wedge of circles wedge pea wedge politics wedge prism wedge product wedge salad wedge shell wedge sum wedge tomb wedge up wedge-and-dash wedge-feeder wedge-shaped wedge-tailed eagle wedge-writing wedgelike

Derived From

wedgewood

Has Part

one end smaller than other

Context

british cambridge university slang computing geometry golf mathematics meteorology phonetics typography uk us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

block diacritic diacritical mark displace fasten fix heel inclined plane iron move sandwich secure triangle trigon trilateral

Type Of (IsA)

inclined plane iron tool triangle useful shape for special tools

Manner Of

move

Related Terms

wooden spoon

Related Terms

base classical clay conjunction crevice distance division edge gap goose háček infimum insertion ipa iron knead lever meet polyhedron rectangular shoe side simple machine split swan tapered trapezoidal triangular tripos unresponsive wedge heel wedge tornado wooden spoon

Synonym Network

bomber chock hacek skein stick turned v wedge heel wooden wedge

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.