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Yes. The word senhor is a Scrabble US word. The word senhor is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word senhor is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (5 found)

HERONS,HONERS,NOSHER,RHONES,SENHOR,

5-letter words (24 found)

HERNS,HERON,HEROS,HOERS,HONER,HONES,HORNS,HORSE,HOSEN,HOSER,NOSER,ONERS,RENOS,RHONE,ROHES,RONES,SENOR,SERON,SHERO,SHOER,SHONE,SHORE,SHORN,SNORE,

4-letter words (37 found)

EONS,ERNS,EROS,HENS,HERN,HERO,HERS,HOER,HOES,HONE,HONS,HORE,HORN,HORS,HOSE,NESH,NOES,NOSE,NOSH,ONER,ONES,ORES,REHS,RENO,RENS,REOS,RESH,RHOS,ROES,ROHE,RONE,ROSE,SHEN,SHOE,SONE,SORE,SORN,

3-letter words (33 found)

EHS,ENS,EON,ERN,ERS,HEN,HER,HES,HOE,HON,HOS,NOH,NOR,NOS,OES,OHS,ONE,ONS,ORE,ORS,OSE,REH,REN,REO,RES,RHO,ROE,SEN,SER,SHE,SHO,SOH,SON,

2-letter words (16 found)

EH,EN,ER,ES,HE,HO,NE,NO,OE,OH,ON,OR,OS,RE,SH,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 116 words from senhor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of senhor

senhor

Etymology

From Portuguese senhor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɪˈnjɔː(ɹ)/

Noun

senhor (plural senhors or senhores)

  1. A Portuguese gentleman.
  2. Obsolete spelling of señor

Anagrams

  • Honers, herons, honers, hornes, horsen, nosher, rhones

Old Galician-Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • senner
  • senor
  • sennor

Etymology

Inherited from Latin seniōrem, from senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seˈɲoɾ/

Noun

senhor m or f by sense

  1. lord, lady
    • […] don afonſo de caſtela / aquel que […] ueçeu o ſenor dos mouros […]
      […] Don Alfonso of Castile, the one that […] defeated the lord of the Moors […]
    • 1198, Cancioneiro da Ajuda, Paio Soares de Taveirós, cantiga 38: No mundo non me sei parella (facsimile)
  2. (Christianity) Lord, Lady
    • Eſta e do corpo de n[oſtr]o ſennor / que un uilão metera en hũa / ſa colmẽa […]
      This one is (about) the body of our Lord, which a peasant placed in one of his beehives […]
    • […] bẽeita tu / eſ mia ſennor que pariſte iheſu / xp̃o.
      […] you are blessed, my Lady, who bore Jesus Christ.

Descendants

  • Galician: señor, señora
  • Portuguese: senhor, senhora (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

  • Universo Cantigas - "senhor1"
  • Universo Cantigas - "senhor2"

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

  • segnor

Etymology

From Latin senior, seniōrem.

Noun

senhor m (oblique plural senhors, nominative singular senher, nominative plural senhor)

  1. lord (a nobleman in medieval society)

Descendants

  • Occitan: sénher, senhor, signour

References

  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “senior”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 448

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • Sr. (abbreviation)
  • senhôr (obsolete)
  • sinhô (Caipira eye-dialect)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese senhor m or f, from Latin seniōrem (“older”), comparative of senex (“old”), from Proto-Indo-European *sénos (“old”). Doublet of sénior. Compare Galician and Spanish señor.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -oɾ
  • Hyphenation: se‧nhor

Noun

senhor m (plural senhores, feminine senhora, feminine plural senhoras)

  1. mister (title conferred to an adult male)
  2. sir (address to any male)
  3. (military) sir (address to a military superior)
  4. an old man
    Synonyms: idoso, velho
  5. an unspecified male
    Synonyms: (slang, Brazil) cara, (slang, Portugal) gajo
  6. (historical) feudal lord
  7. master (owner of a slave)
    Synonyms: amo, dono
  8. (honorific) Sir (title given to a knight)
    Synonym: sir

Derived terms

  • assenhorear, assenhorar
  • o senhor
  • Senhor

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Source: wiktionary.org