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tengwar

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑː/
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/ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑː/ · /ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑɹ/

Definition of tengwar

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya).
    “He's now trying to arrange for a type font set in the Tengwar alphabet”
    “For example, Unicode hasn't yet incorporated Tengwar (an elvish script) into its official repertoire (although it's on the roadmap—there are, after all, many maps of Middle Earth).”
    “An innovative feature of the Tengwar is that the shapes of the individual letters were designed to record phonetic features”
    “The translator uses the Tengwar script to display Sindarin.”
    “The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).”
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name

  1. A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya).
    “He's now trying to arrange for a type font set in the Tengwar alphabet”
    “For example, Unicode hasn't yet incorporated Tengwar (an elvish script) into its official repertoire (although it's on the roadmap—there are, after all, many maps of Middle Earth).”
    “An innovative feature of the Tengwar is that the shapes of the individual letters were designed to record phonetic features”
    “The translator uses the Tengwar script to display Sindarin.”
    “The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).”

noun

  1. (form-of, plural)plural of tengwa

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Etymology

Developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. From tengwar, the term Tolkien invented to represent the glyphs found in Tengwar. From tengwa, the singular of "tengwar", a single glyph.

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