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Yes. The word eng is a Scrabble US word. The word eng is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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Is eng a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word eng is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

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3-letter words (3 found)

ENG,GEN,NEG,

2-letter words (2 found)

EN,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 6 words from eng according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of eng

eng

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English English.

Symbol

eng

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for English.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of English terms

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɛŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋ

Etymology 1

Probably from Dutch eng (“narrow”), also compare Old English enge (“narrow”), from Proto-West Germanic *angī, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *anguz.

No mention of the word is found in any surviving Middle English text, save for the Middle English compound word ang-nail. Related to Dutch eng (“narrow”), German eng (“narrow”), Low German enj (“confined, narrow”), Luxembourgish enk (“narrow”).

Adjective

eng

  1. (regional, obsolete) Narrow.
References
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • The Middle English Dictionary
  • bosworthtoller.com

Etymology 2

Probably created in analogy with other names for nasal consonants em (m) and en (n).

Noun

eng (plural engs)

  1. Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. .
Synonyms
  • agma
  • (ŋ): engma
Derived terms

(ŋ):

  • feng
  • heng

Anagrams

  • Neg, -gen, neg, GEN, /neg, gen, gen., neg., NGE, /gen, Gen, NEG, Gen.

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *anga, related to Lithuanian angùs (“sluggish, lazy, idle”), éngti (“to strangle”), Latvian îgt (“to wear off, to languish”), and Gothic 𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌿𐍃 (aggwus, “narrow”).

Adjective

eng (feminine enge)

  1. deaf and dumb

Synonyms

  • shtemët

Related terms

  • ang

References

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnɡ/, [ɛŋˀ]

Noun

eng c (singular definite engen, plural indefinite enge)

  1. A meadow.

Inflection

Derived terms

References

  • “eng” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • “eng” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛŋ/
  • Hyphenation: eng
  • Rhymes: -ɛŋ
  • Homophone: Eng

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch enge, from Old Dutch *engi, from Proto-West Germanic *angī, from Proto-Germanic *anguz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énǵʰus. Cognate with German eng, from Old High German engi.

Adjective

eng (comparative enger, superlative engst)

  1. scary, creepy
  2. narrow
  3. small
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: eng
  • →? English: eng

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch enc.

Noun

eng m (plural engen)

  1. alternative form of enk

Anagrams

  • gen

German

Alternative forms

  • enge (archaic, as a byform until earlier 20th c.)

Etymology

From Middle High German enge, from Old High German engi, from Proto-West Germanic *angī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛŋ/

Adjective

eng (strong nominative masculine singular enger, comparative enger, superlative am engsten)

  1. narrow, tight
    enge Hosen ― tight trousers
  2. (of relationships) close
    enge Freunde ― close friends

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • “eng” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “eng” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “eng” in Duden online

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔəŋ/ [ˈʔɨŋ]
  • Rhymes: -əŋ
  • Syllabification: eng

Noun

ëng (plural ëëng)

  1. nose
  2. (Bauko, Kapangan) human nose

Synonyms

References

  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1982) “Kankanay Anatomy: A Lexicon”, in Asian Folklore Studies‎[2], volume 41, number 1 (overall work in English and Kankanaey), Nanzan University, →DOI, page 84

Kosraean

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *aŋin, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *haŋin. Compare Tagalog hangin, Malagasy anina, Pohnpeian ahng, Fijian cagi, Tongan angi, Samoan agi, Hawaiian ani.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eŋ/

Noun

eng

  1. wind

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /æŋ/

Article

eng f

  1. Feminine singular indefinite article: a, an
  2. Plural indefinite article: some; only used in wéi eng (“what kind of”), sou eng (“such, this kind of”), and to indicate a vague number before numerals and certain adjectives like ettlech

Declension

Mandarin

Romanization

eng

  1. nonstandard spelling of ēng
  2. nonstandard spelling of éng
  3. nonstandard spelling of ěng
  4. nonstandard spelling of èng

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mokilese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *aŋin (“wind”), from Proto-Austronesian *haŋin (“wind”)

Noun

eng

  1. wind

Derived terms

  • ukeng

References

  • Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse eng.

Noun

eng f or m (definite singular enga or engen, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

  1. a meadow

Derived terms

  • blomstereng
  • kløvereng
  • slåtteeng

References

  • “eng” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse eng, from Proto-Germanic *angijō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛŋː/

Noun

eng f (definite singular enga, indefinite plural enger, definite plural engene)

  1. a meadow

Inflection

References

  • “eng” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeːŋ/, [ˈɛːŋ]

Determiner

ēng

  1. alternative form of ēnich

References

  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old Norse

Alternative forms

  • engi

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *angijō f.

Noun

eng f or n

  1. meadow

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eng1”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eng2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Swedish

Noun

eng c

  1. archaic spelling of äng (“meadow”)

See also

  • eng. (“English”)

Uzbek

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰭 (ŋ /⁠eŋ⁠/), Kazakh ең (eñ), Azerbaijani ən, Kyrgyz эң (eŋ), Turkish en, and Turkmen iň.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eŋ/

Adverb

eng

  1. the most ..., the ...-est (marks the superlative degree of adjectives)

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

  • (Northern Vietnam, South Vietnam) anh

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *ʔɛːŋ.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɛŋ˧˧]

Noun

eng

  1. (North Central Vietnam) elder brother
    Antonyms: tam, ún
    eng ả tam ― brothers and sisters

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛŋ/

Noun

eng f (plural engiau)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter Ng/ng.

Mutation

See also

  • (Latin-script letter names) llythyren; a, bi, ec, èch, di, èdd, e, èf, èff, èg, eng, aetsh, i / i dot, je, ce, el, èll, em, en, o, pi, ffi, ciw, er, rhi, ès, ti, èth, u / u bedol / u gwpan, fi, w, ecs, y, sèd

Source: wiktionary.org