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Yes. The word congee is a Scrabble US word. The word congee is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word congee is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CONGEE,

5-letter words (1 found)

CONGE,

4-letter words (5 found)

CONE,GENE,GONE,OGEE,ONCE,

3-letter words (18 found)

CEE,COG,CON,ECO,EEN,EGO,ENE,ENG,EON,GEE,GEN,GEO,GOE,GON,NEE,NEG,NOG,ONE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EN,GO,NE,NO,OE,ON,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 33 words from congee according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of congee

congee

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑnd͡ʒi/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒndʒiː/
  • Homophone: kanji (US)

Etymology 1

From late Middle English congie, from Old French congié, congiet (modern French congé), from Latin commeātus (“passage, permission to leave”), from commeō (“I go and come”), from con- + meō (“I go, I pass”). Figurative senses generally borrowed from developments in French congé.

Alternative forms

  • conge [16th–17th c.]
  • congé [from 18th c.]

Noun

congee (countable and uncountable, plural congees)

  1. Leave, formal permission for some action, (originally and particularly):
    1. (obsolete) Formal permission to leave; a passport.
  2. (obsolete) Formal dismissal; (figurative) any dismissal; (originally & particularly humorously ironic) abrupt dismissal without ceremony.
  3. (obsolete) Formal leavetaking; (figurative) any farewell.
  4. (obsolete, Scotland) A fee paid to make another go away, (particularly) alms to a persistent beggar.
  5. (archaic) A bow, curtsey, or other gesture (originally) made at departure but (later) including at greeting or in obeissance or respect.
Derived terms
  • give congee
  • take congee

Verb

congee (third-person singular simple present congees, present participle congeeing, simple past and past participle congeed)

  1. (archaic) To give congee, (particularly)
    1. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to leave; to dismiss.
    2. (obsolete, transitive) To give formal permission to do something; to license.
  2. (archaic) To take congee: to leave ceremoniously.
  3. (archaic) To make a congee: to bow, curtsey, etc., (particularly dialectal) while leaving; (figuratively) to make obeissance, show respect, or defer to someone or something.

Etymology 2

From Tamil கஞ்சி (kañci) or another Dravidian language such as Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi) (ultimately from Proto-Dravidian *kañci), possibly via Portuguese canje.

Alternative forms

  • conjee

Noun

congee (usually uncountable, plural congees)

  1. (Asian cooking) A type of thick rice porridge or soup, sometimes prepared with vegetables and/or meat.
Synonyms
  • rice porridge; rice congee (hypercorrect)
  • (Chinese English): porridge
Hyponyms
  • (Korean, Thai, Hong Kong contexts): jook, juk
  • (Chinese contexts): zhou
Derived terms
  • congee house
  • rice congee
Translations

See also

  • (Portuguese): canja

See also

  • Thesaurus:dim sum

References

References

  • "congee | congé, n.²" & "v." in the Oxford English Dictionary, 1891.

Anagrams

  • negoce

Source: wiktionary.org