Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tengwar

/ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑɹ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.39 in modern English

Syllables: teng-war
IPA: /ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑɹ/

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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).

noun

plural of tengwa

Example Sentences

"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)."
"The poster for the mission, which is officially called NROL-101, sports a pretty clear Lord of the Rings theme, featuring a pair of interlocking golden rings and the phrase "goodness persists" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar script, the fictional language dreamed up entirely by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself."

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.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑɹ/
British English: /ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑː/

Frequently Paired Words

tengwa tengwar Black Speech Quenya Sindarin

Questions

How do you pronounce tengwar?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛŋ.ɡwɑɹ/.
What does tengwar mean?: 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).
Where does tengwar come from?: 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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