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

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5-letter words (3 found)

SEGNI,SENGI,SINGE,

4-letter words (14 found)

EGIS,ENGS,GENS,GIEN,GIES,GINS,INGS,NEGS,NIES,SIEN,SIGN,SINE,SING,SNIG,

3-letter words (16 found)

ENG,ENS,GEN,GIE,GIN,GIS,ING,INS,NEG,NIE,NIS,SEG,SEI,SEN,SIG,SIN,

2-letter words (7 found)

EN,ES,GI,IN,IS,NE,SI,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 41 words from sengi according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sengi

sengi

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Swahili sengi, probably from another Bantu language (compare Giryama sanje). The word was first used in print in English by the British zoologist Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935) in The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals (1997): see the quotation.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛŋɡi/
  • Hyphenation: sen‧gi

Noun

sengi (plural sengis)

  1. Any of several small, insectivorous long-nosed mammals, of the family Macroscelididae within the Macroscelidea order, native to Africa.

Synonyms

  • elephant shrew
  • jumping shrew
Usage notes

The British zoologist Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935) and the American zoologist Galen Rathbun (1944–2019) argue that sengi is preferable to elephant shrew since sengis have a very different evolutionary history from true shrews (order Eulipotyphla), and it is more appropriate for local names to be used for animals endemic to a particular region.

Hyponyms
Descendants
  • → Maltese: senġi

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Kongo sengi, senki, from French cinq (“five”) (in the sense of five sous). Doublet of cinque, fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, and punch (“beverage”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛŋɡi/, /-ɡiː/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɛŋɡi/
  • Hyphenation: sen‧gi

Noun

sengi (plural sengis or sengi)

  2. (historical) A former (1967–1993) monetary unit of Zaire, one hundredth of a likuta, and one ten-thousandth of a zaire; it was issued only in ten sengi coins.
Alternative forms
  • senghi
Translations

References

Further reading

  • sengi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    • Category:Macroscelididae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
    • Macroscelididae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • zaire (currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • e-sign, gines, segni, Sieng, Isneg, Gines, Signe, Niges, Giens, singe

Japanese

Romanization

sengi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of せんぎ

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sengi f

  1. (non-standard since 2012) definite singular of seng

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • sangu

Verb

sengi (first-person singular present sangaf, not mutable)

  1. (transitive) to trample, tread on, stamp down
    Synonyms: sathru, damsang, troedio
  2. (transitive) to push in, insert
    Synonym: mewnosod

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • sangfa (“affliction; trodden-down place”)
  • sangiad (“parenthesis, interpolation”)

Further reading

  • D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “sengi”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sengi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Source: wiktionary.org