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Yes. The word leger is a Scrabble US word. The word leger is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word leger is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

GERLE,LEGER,

4-letter words (7 found)

EGER,GERE,GLEE,GREE,LEER,LERE,REEL,

3-letter words (10 found)

EEL,ERE,ERG,GEE,GEL,GER,LEE,LEG,REE,REG,

2-letter words (4 found)

EE,EL,ER,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from leger according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of leger

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Definitions and meaning of leger

leger

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɛd͡ʒə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdʒə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French léger, assumed to be from Latin leviarius, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

  1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.

Etymology 2

A variant of ledger.

Adjective

leger (comparative more leger, superlative most leger)

  1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Noun

leger (plural legers)

  1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
  2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”)

Verb

leger (third-person singular simple present legers, present participle legering, simple past and past participle legered)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, British, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”)

Anagrams

  • Ergle, regle

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleː.ɣər/
  • Hyphenation: le‧ger
  • Rhymes: -eːɣər

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch leger, from Old Dutch *leger, from Proto-West Germanic *legr, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager. Cognate to English lair.

Noun

leger n (plural legers, diminutive legertje n)

  1. army, armed forces
  2. form (habitation of a hare)
  3. (archaic) bed, crib
  4. (figurative) mass, multitude
  5. Short for dijkleger.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: leër
  • → English: leaguer
  • → Sranan Tongo: legre

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

leger

  1. comparative degree of leeg

Verb

leger

  1. inflection of legeren:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • geler, regel

German

Etymology

18th century, borrowed from French léger.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈʒɛːʁ/, [leˈʒɛ(ː)ɐ̯], [lə-], [-ˈʒeːɐ̯]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ger

Adjective

leger (strong nominative masculine singular legerer, comparative legerer, superlative am legersten)

  1. casual, informal
    Synonyms: locker, entspannt, ungezwungen, informell, lässig, lax, salopp
  2. (of clothing) dressed down
    Synonyms: informell, lässig, sportlich

Declension

Further reading

  • “leger” in Duden online
  • “leger” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch legger (“ledger”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛɡər/
  • Hyphenation: lè‧gêr

Noun

lègêr (first-person possessive legerku, second-person possessive legermu, third-person possessive legernya)

  1. (education) a ledger, the marking register.

Further reading

  • “leger” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈɡer/

Verb

leger

  1. to read

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

lēger

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of lēgō

Middle English

Noun

leger

  1. Alternative form of liggere

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

leger m

  1. indefinite plural of lege

Verb

leger

  1. present of lege

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

leger f

  1. indefinite plural of lege

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *legr.

Cognate with Old Frisian leger, Old Saxon legar, Dutch leger (“bed, camp, army”), Old High German legar (German Lager (“camp”)), Old Norse legr (Danish lejr, Swedish läger (“bed”)), Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐍂𐍃 (ligrs). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek λέχος (lékhos), Latin lectus (“bed”), Proto-Celtic *legyom (Old Irish lige, Irish luí), Proto-Slavic *ležati (Russian лежа́ть (ležátʹ)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈle.jer/

Noun

leġer n

  1. the state or action of lying, lying down, or lying ill
    • on ðam sixtan dæge his legeres ― on the sixth day of his illness
  2. resting-place; couch, bed
  3. deathbed, grave
    • on gehalgodan legere licgan ― to be buried in a consecrated grave

Declension

Related terms

Descendants

  • Middle English: leir, leire, lair, lare
    • English: lair
    • Scots: lair, lear, layer, lare

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin legō, legere.

Verb

leger

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Vallader) to read
Conjugation
Alternative forms
  • liger (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)
  • ler (Puter)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

leger m (feminine singular legra, masculine plural legers, feminine plural legras)

  1. (Sursilvan) merry, happy
    Synonym: allegher
Alternative forms
  • legher (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Swedish

Adjective

leger (comparative legerare, superlative legerast)

  1. Alternative form of legär

Inflection

Anagrams

  • regel

Source: wiktionary.org