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Is match a Scrabble word?

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

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Is match a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3A1T1C3H4

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Yes. The word match is a Words With Friends word. The word match is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

MATCH,

4-letter words (5 found)

CHAM,CHAT,MACH,MATH,TACH,

3-letter words (10 found)

ACH,ACT,CAM,CAT,CHA,HAM,HAT,MAC,MAT,TAM,

2-letter words (8 found)

AH,AM,AT,CH,HA,HM,MA,TA,

You can make 24 words from match according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of match

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Definitions and meaning of match

match

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mæt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ætʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (companion, mate, wife, one suited to another), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō (partner, equal), from Proto-Germanic *makô, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (to knead, work). Compare Danish mage (mate), Icelandic maki (spouse).

Noun

match (plural matches)

  1. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
  2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
  4. A marriage.
  5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  6. Suitability.
  7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
  8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
  10. An agreement or compact.
  11. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
See also
  • competition
  • game
  • set
  • tournament

Etymology 2

From Middle English macchen (to marry; be paired with), from the noun (see above).

Verb

match (third-person singular simple present matches, present participle matching, simple past and past participle matched)

  1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
  2. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
  3. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
  4. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
  5. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
  6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
  7. (transitive, programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
    The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • mate

Etymology 3

From Middle English macche, mecche (wick (of a candle)), from Old French mesche, meische, from Vulgar Latin micca (compare Catalan metxa, Spanish mecha, Italian miccia), which in turn is probably from Latin myxa (nozzle, curved part of a lamp), from Ancient Greek μύξα (múxa, lamp wick).

Noun

match (plural matches)

  1. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
    Synonym: (obsolete) spunk
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Bengali: ম্যাচ (mêc)
  • Hindi: माचिस (mācis)
  • Irish: meaits
  • Japanese: マッチ (matchi)
  • Jersey Dutch: match
  • Malay: macis, mancis
  • Pashto: ماچس (māčás)
  • Urdu: ماچس (mācis)
  • Welsh: matsis
Translations
See also
  • fire, lighter, cigarette lighter
  • strike (to strike a match)

Chinese

Etymology

From English [Term?]. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. from match or matching or others?

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɛːt͡ʃ⁵⁵/

Adjective

match

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) matching; well-matched

Synonyms

  • (gaap3)

French

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /matʃ/

Noun

match m (plural matches or matchs)

  1. (sports) match, game

Usage notes

Sometimes translated as rencontre (sportive).

Derived terms

  • match nul
  • Paris Match

Descendants

  • Ladino: mach
  • Romanian: meci
  • Turkish: maç

Further reading

  • “match”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English match.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Noun

match m (invariable)

  1. match (sports event)
  2. horserace (involving only two horses)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

match

  1. imperative of matche

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English match.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmat͡ʃ/ [ˈmat͡ʃ]
  • Rhymes: -atʃ
  • Syllabification: match

Noun

match m (plural matches)

  1. game, match (sporting event)
  2. match (act of matching)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English match.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /matːɕ/, [maʈːʂ], /matːɧ/

Noun

match c

  1. match (competitive event)

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

  • matcha

Source: wiktionary.org