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Is miss a Scrabble word?

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

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

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4-letter words (3 found)

ISMS,MISS,SIMS,

3-letter words (4 found)

ISM,MIS,SIM,SIS,

2-letter words (3 found)

IS,MI,SI,

You can make 10 words from miss according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of miss

miss imss msis smis isms sims miss imss msis smis isms sims mssi smsi mssi smsi ssmi ssmi issm sism issm sism ssim ssim

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Definitions and meaning of miss

miss

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /mɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Etymology 1

From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).

Verb

miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To fail to hit.
  2. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
  3. (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
  4. (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
  5. (transitive) To fail to understand;
  6. (transitive) To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
  7. (transitive) To fail to attend.
  8. (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
  9. (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
  10. (transitive, slang) To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
  11. (poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.
  12. (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
  13. (intransitive, obsolete) To go wrong; to err.
  14. (intransitive, obsolete) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of "to fail to hit"): hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
  • (antonym(s) of "to feel the absence of"): have, feature
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English misse, mis, from Old English miss (“loss, absence”), from Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss”). Cognate with Scots miss (“a loss, want, cause of grief or mourning”), Middle High German misse, mis (“lack, missing, absence”), Icelandic missir (“loss”). Related also to Scots mis (“wrongdoing, sin, guilt”), Dutch mis (“misdeed, wrongdoing, mistake”), Middle Low German misse (“sin, wrong”).

Noun

miss (plural misses)

  1. A failure to hit.
  2. A failure to obtain or accomplish.
  3. An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
  4. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
  5. (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.
  6. (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.
  7. (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From mistress.

Alternative forms

  • Miss
  • meess, Meess (archaic, eye dialect)

Noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

  1. A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
  2. An unmarried woman; a girl.
  3. A kept woman; a mistress.
  4. (card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
Coordinate terms
  • (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) (Category: en:Titles)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • missis, missus
  • missy
Translations

Anagrams

  • ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English miss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈmis]

Noun

miss f (plural misses)

  1. beauty queen

Dutch

Etymology 1

From English miss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪs/

Noun

miss f (plural missen, diminutive missje n)

  1. A winner of a beauty contest.
  2. A beauty.
  3. A girl with a high self-esteem.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Alternative forms

  • mss

Adverb

miss

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of misschien (“maybe”).

German

Alternative forms

  • miß (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪs/
  • Rhymes: -ɪs

Verb

miss

  1. singular imperative of messen

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪs/

Verb

miss

  1. second-person singular imperative of mess

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

miss

  1. imperative of missa

Old English

Alternative forms

  • mis — late Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miss, from Proto-Germanic *miss- (“loss, want”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, replace”). Cognate with Old Norse missir, missa (“loss”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miss/, [mis]

Noun

miss n

  1. loss

Declension

Related terms

  • mis-
  • misċan
  • missan

Descendants

  • Middle English: mis, mys, misse, mysse (merged with Old Norse missir, missa)
    • English: miss
    • Scots: mis, miss

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English Miss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mis/
  • Rhymes: -is
  • Syllabification: miss

Noun

miss f (indeclinable)

  1. beauty queen

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English miss.

Noun

miss f (plural miss)

  1. miss

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English miss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmis/ [ˈmis]
  • Rhymes: -is
  • Syllabification: miss
  • Homophone: mis

Noun

miss f (plural misses, masculine míster, masculine plural místeres)

  1. Miss, beauty queen (winner in a female beauty contest)

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.

Further reading

  • “miss”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams

  • sims

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

miss c

  1. A failure to hit.
  2. A mistake.
  3. (rare) A beauty; a winner of a beauty contest.
    Miss Hawaii gick vidare och vann Miss America-tävlingen
    Miss Hawaii went on to win the Miss America contest

Declension

Synonyms

  • (failure to hit): bom
  • (mistake): misstag
  • (beauty): skönhetsmiss

Source: wiktionary.org