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Is missus a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word missus is a Scrabble US word. The word missus is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is missus a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word missus is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

M3I1S1S1U1S1

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6-letter words (1 found)

MISSUS,

5-letter words (1 found)

SUMIS,

4-letter words (8 found)

ISMS,MISS,MUSS,SIMS,SISS,SUMI,SUMS,SUSS,

3-letter words (9 found)

ISM,MIS,MUS,SIM,SIS,SUI,SUM,SUS,UMS,

2-letter words (6 found)

IS,MI,MU,SI,UM,US,

You can make 25 words from missus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of missus

missus

Etymology

Representing a typical pronunciation of Mrs, a corrupted form of Mistress.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.əz/, /ˈmɪs.ɪz/, /ˈmɪs.əs/
  • Homophones: misses, Misses
  • Rhymes: -ɪsəz, -ɪsəs

Noun

missus (plural missuses)

  1. (colloquial) Wife or girlfriend.
  2. (colloquial) Term of address for a woman.

Synonyms

  • Mrs. (US, Canada)
  • Mrs (UK)

Coordinate terms

  • miss
  • mister
  • mistress
  • madam
  • maiden
  • maid
  • master
  • matron

Translations

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmis.sus/, [ˈmɪs̠ːʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmis.sus/, [ˈmisːus]

Etymology 1

mittō (“to send, to shoot, to let”) +‎ -tus.

Noun

missus m (genitive missūs); fourth declension

  1. a sending, dispatching
  2. a throwing, hurling, cast, shot
  3. (in the public games) a round
  4. (of a meal) a course
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Etymology 2

Past participle of mittō.

Participle

missus (feminine missa, neuter missum); first/second-declension participle

  1. sent, having been sent, caused to go, having been caused to go
    • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:25
  2. let go, having been let go, released, having been released, discharged, having been discharged
  3. thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, launched, having been launched
  4. sent out, having been sent out, emitted, having been emitted
  5. uttered, having been uttered
  6. dismissed, having been dismissed, disregarded, having been disregarded
  7. put to an end, having been put to an end
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Related terms
  • missa
  • missiō
Descendants
  • Catalan: mes
  • English: mess
  • French: mis
  • Old French: mets, mes
  • Italian: messo

References

  • “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “missus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • missus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • missus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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