Is “Hinge” a Scrabble word?
Yes
HINGE
Valid in at least one Scrabble dictionary
Valid in these dictionaries
SOWPODS / CSW
Scrabble UK & International
TWL / NWL
Scrabble North America
Large English Dictionary
General English word list
Meaning of Hinge
/ˈhɪndʒ/
noun
1.A jointed or flexible device that allows the pivoting of a door etc.
2.A naturally occurring joint resembling such hardware in form or action, as in the shell of a bivalve.
3.A stamp hinge, a folded and gummed paper rectangle for affixing postage stamps in an album.
Synonyms: har, quartile
verb
1.To attach by, or equip with a hinge.
2.(with on or upon) To depend on something.
3.The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break.
“The flake hinged at an inclusion in the core.”