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Yes. The word market is a Scrabble US word. The word market is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word market is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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6-letter words (1 found)

MARKET,

5-letter words (8 found)

ARMET,KERMA,MAKER,MATER,RAMET,TAKER,TAMER,TREMA,

4-letter words (26 found)

ARET,KAME,KART,KETA,MAKE,MARE,MARK,MART,MATE,MEAT,MERK,META,RAKE,RATE,REAK,REAM,TAKE,TAME,TARE,TEAK,TEAM,TEAR,TERM,TRAM,TREK,TREM,

3-letter words (32 found)

AKE,AME,ARE,ARK,ARM,ART,ATE,EAR,EAT,ERA,ERK,ERM,ETA,KAE,KAM,KAT,KEA,KET,MAE,MAK,MAR,MAT,MET,RAM,RAT,REM,RET,TAE,TAK,TAM,TAR,TEA,

2-letter words (14 found)

AE,AM,AR,AT,EA,EM,ER,ET,KA,MA,ME,RE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 82 words from market according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of market

market

Etymology

From Middle English market, from late Old English market (“market”) and Anglo-Norman markiet (Old French marchié); both ultimately from Latin mercātus (“trade, market”), from mercor (“I trade, deal in, buy”), itself derived from merx (“wares, merchandise”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɑːkɪt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkɪt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈmɑɹkət/
  • Hyphenation: mar‧ket
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)kɪt, -ɑɹkət

Noun

market (plural markets)

  1. A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise at a set time, often periodic.
  2. City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.
  3. A grocery store
  4. A group of potential customers for one's product.
  5. A geographical area where a certain commercial demand exists.
  6. A formally organized, sometimes monopolistic, system of trading in specified goods or effects.
  7. The sum total traded in a process of individuals trading for certain commodities.
  8. (obsolete) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; hence, value; worth.

Synonyms

  • bazaar
  • fair
  • mart
  • arcade

Derived terms

Related terms

  • mart
  • mercantile
  • merchant

Descendants

  • → Bengali: মার্কেট (markeṭ)
  • → Hindi: मार्केट (mārkeṭ)
  • → Japanese: マーケット (māketto)
  • → Korean: 마켓 (maket)
  • → Odia: ମାର୍କେଟ୍ (markeṭ)
  • → Persian: (Dari) مارکیت (mârkêt)
  • → Turkish: market
  • → Urdu: مارکیٹ (markeṭ)

Translations

Verb

market (third-person singular simple present markets, present participle marketing, simple past and past participle marketed)

  1. (transitive) To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
  2. (transitive) To sell.
  3. (intransitive) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
  4. (intransitive) To shop in a market; to attend a market.

Derived terms

  • marketeer

Related terms

  • marketer
  • marketing campaign

Translations

References

  • “market”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • market in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • “market”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑrket/, [ˈmɑ̝rk̟e̞t̪]
  • Rhymes: -ɑrket
  • Syllabification(key): mar‧ket

Noun

market

  1. Alternative form of marketti

Declension

Further reading

  • “market”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

  • kermat

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • marcat, markat, marked, marketh
  • markete, markett, markette, markyth, mercatt, merket, merketh, merkett (Late Middle English)

Etymology

From late Old English market (“market”), from Old Northern French markiet (Old French marchié), Old Saxon markat, and/or Old Norse markaðr; all ultimately from Vulgar Latin marcātus, from classical Latin mercātus (“trade, market”).

Variants ending /t/ are from either Old Saxon or Old Picard, while those ending in /θ/ are from other varieties of Old Northern French (e.g. Walloon).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /marˈkeːt/, /ˈmarkat/, /ˈmarkɛt/
  • (ending in /θ/) IPA(key): /marˈkɛːθ/, /ˈmarkɛθ/

Noun

market (plural marketes, dative markete)

  1. A market; (periodic public assembly for buying or selling).
  2. A marketplace; a square for holding markets.
  3. (rare) A market town; a town where markets are held.
  4. (rare) Trade, interchange, interaction.

Descendants

  • English: market (see there for further descendants)
  • Middle Scots: market, mercat
    • Scots: market
  • Yola: maarkeet, markeat

References

Old French

Alternative forms

  • markiet

Etymology

See marchié.

Noun

market oblique singular, m (oblique plural markés, nominative singular markés, nominative plural market)

  1. (Old Northern French) market; venue where goods are bought and sold

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English market, from Middle English market, from late Old English market and Anglo-Norman markiet, from Latin mercātus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmar.kɛt/
  • Rhymes: -arkɛt
  • Syllabification: mar‧ket

Noun

market m inan

  1. market (grocery store)

Declension

Further reading

  • market in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • market in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English market.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɑɾ.cet/

Noun

market (definite accusative marketi, plural marketler)

  1. market

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org