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

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4-letter words (1 found)

LING,

3-letter words (5 found)

GIN,ING,LIG,LIN,NIL,

2-letter words (3 found)

GI,IN,LI,

You can make 9 words from ling according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ling

ling ilng lnig nlig inlg nilg lign ilgn lgin glin igln giln lngi nlgi lgni glni ngli gnli ingl nigl ignl ginl ngil gnil

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Definitions and meaning of ling

ling

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: lĭng; IPA(key): /lɪŋ/
  • (General American) enPR: lēng; IPA(key): /li(ː)ŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ, -iŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English lenge, lienge, from Middle French leynge (compare French lingue), from Middle Dutch *lenge. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

  1. Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
  2. A common ling (Molva molva).
Derived terms
  • blue ling (Molva dypterygia)
  • common ling (Molva molva)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.

Noun

ling (countable and uncountable, plural lings or ling)

  2. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
    1. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

ling (uncountable)

  1. (informal) Clipping of linguistics.

Anagrams

  • lign-

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *linga, from Proto-Indo-European *leig-. Compare English lark (“to frolic”), Lithuanian láigyti (“to run around wildly”), Ancient Greek ἐλελίζω (elelízō, “to whirl around”).

Noun

ling m (definite lingu)

  1. quick gait, trot
  2. hurry, haste, rush

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lingid.

Verb

ling (present analytic lingeann, future analytic lingfidh, verbal noun lingeadh, past participle lingthe) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. (literary) leap, spring
  2. jump at, attack
  3. start back, shrink away from (with ó (“from”))

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ling”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “ling” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.

Mandarin

Romanization

ling

  1. Nonstandard spelling of līng.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of líng.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of lǐng.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of lìng.

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.

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • leng, nig, ning

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *langa-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *langa- (“lame”). Confer Persian لنگ (leng, “lame; leg”), Central Kurdish لەنگ (leng), Sanskrit लङ्ग (laṅga, “lame”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɪŋɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋɡ

Noun

ling m (Arabic spelling لنگ)

  1. leg
    Synonyms: pê, qor
  2. foot
    Synonym: pê

Declension

Related terms

  • leng

References

  • Chyet, Michael L. (2020) “ling”, in Ferhenga Birûskî: Kurmanji–English Dictionary (Language Series; 1), volume 1, London: Transnational Press, page 450

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [liŋɡ]

Verb

ling

  1. inflection of linge:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English lyng, from Old Norse lyng.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /liːn/
  • Homophone: llean

Noun

ling

  1. ling (Calluna vulgaris)

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108

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