ing

Plural: ings

Noun

A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.

Examples

Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angijō (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h₂enk- (“to bend; curve; bow”). Cognate with Scots eng (“ing; meadow”), Dutch eng (“pasture; farmland”), Danish eng (“meadow”), Swedish äng (“meadow; field”), Norwegian eng (“meadow”), Faroese ong (“grassland; meadow; pasture”), Icelandic eng (“a meadow”), Icelandic engi (“a meadow; meadowland”).

Scrabble Score: 4

ing: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionary
ing: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
ing: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

ing: not valid in Words With Friends