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Yes. The word lenis is a Scrabble US word. The word lenis is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (6 found)

ELSIN,LENIS,LIENS,LINES,NELIS,SILEN,

4-letter words (13 found)

ISLE,LEIS,LENS,LIEN,LIES,LINE,LINS,NIES,NILS,SEIL,SIEN,SILE,SINE,

3-letter words (15 found)

ELS,ENS,INS,LEI,LES,LIE,LIN,LIS,NIE,NIL,NIS,SEI,SEL,SEN,SIN,

2-letter words (8 found)

EL,EN,ES,IN,IS,LI,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 43 words from lenis according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lenis

lenis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lēnis (“soft, smooth”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lē'nəs, lā'nəs, IPA(key): /ˈliːnɪs/, /ˈleɪnɪs/
  • Rhymes: -iːnɪs

Adjective

lenis (not comparable)

  1. (phonetics, of a consonant) Weakly articulated, hence voiced; especially as compared to the others of a group of homorganic consonants.
    Synonym: lax
    Antonym: fortis

Derived terms

  • lenition

Translations

Noun

lenis (plural lenes)

  1. (phonetics) A lenis consonant.

Anagrams

  • LINEs, Niles, elsin, liens, lines, lisne

Latin

Etymology 1

From Proto-Italic *lēnis (“soft, mild”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁- (“lazy, slow; soft”).

Cognate to Proto-Slavic *lěnь (“laziness”) and to Lithuanian lė́nas (“slow, calm”). Compare also lentus, of similar sound and meaning but different origin.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫeː.nɪs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛː.nis]

Adjective

lēnis (neuter lēne, comparative lēnior, superlative lēnissimus, adverb lēne or lēniter); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. soft, smooth, gentle, moderate, mild, calm
    Synonyms: lentus, mītis, placidus, mollis
  2. gradual
Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Derived terms
  • spīritus lēnis
Related terms
Descendants
  • English: lenis, lenient
  • Galician: lene, ao len
  • Italian: lene
  • Occitan: len
  • Romanian: lin
  • Spanish: lene
  • Portuguese: lene

Etymology 2

Inflected form of lēna (“madame, procuress”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɫeː.niːs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈlɛː.nis]

Noun

lēnīs

  1. dative/ablative plural of lēna

References

  • “lenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “lenis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "lenis", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • lenis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Source: wiktionary.org