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Is masu a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word masu is a Scrabble US word. The word masu is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word masu is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3A1S1U1

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4-letter words (2 found)

AMUS,MASU,

3-letter words (8 found)

AMU,MAS,MUS,SAM,SAU,SMA,SUM,UMS,

2-letter words (6 found)

AM,AS,MA,MU,UM,US,

You can make 16 words from masu according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of masu

masu amsu msau smau asmu samu maus amus muas umas aums uams msua smua musa umsa suma usma asum saum ausm uasm suam usam

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Definitions and meaning of masu

masu

Etymology 1

From Inupiaq masu.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmasuː/

Noun

masu

  1. A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.

Etymology 2

From Japanese 枡.

Noun

masu (plural masu)

  1. A square wooden box, originally used to measure rice in Japan during the feudal period.
Translations

Etymology 3

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

Noun

masu (plural masu)

  1. masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou)

See also

  • masu-seki (possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.)

Anagrams

  • AMUs, MSAU, MUAs, Maus, Musa, UMAs, USMA, amus, aums, saum

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmasu/, [ˈmʌsʊ]
  • Hyphenation: ma‧su

Noun

másu m 

  1. thickness

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmasu]

Noun

masu

  1. dative/locative singular of maso

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • massu

Etymology

< maha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑsu/, [ˈmɑ̝s̠u]
  • Rhymes: -ɑsu
  • Syllabification(key): ma‧su

Noun

masu (colloquial, childish)

  1. tummy

Declension

Synonyms

  • maha
  • vatsa

Further reading

  • “masu”, 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

  • Samu, musa, suma, usma

Japanese

Romanization

masu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ます
  2. Rōmaji transcription of マス

Old French

Etymology

Derived from Latin mansus, past participle of maneō (to stay, to remain), with an intrusive U added between the S and the base and the pre-sibilant N being lost.

Verb

masu

  1. past participle of manoir

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • maso, massu

Etymology

Univerbation of má (“if”) +‎ is (“is”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmasu/

Verb

masu (triggers lenition)

  1. if… is
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10d26
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19b1

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