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Is sister a Scrabble word?

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

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Is sister a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (5 found)

REISTS,RESIST,RESITS,SISTER,STIRES,

5-letter words (15 found)

REIST,RESIT,RESTS,RISES,RITES,SEIRS,SIRES,SITES,STIES,STIRE,STIRS,TIERS,TIRES,TRESS,TRIES,

4-letter words (27 found)

ERST,ESTS,IRES,REIS,REST,RETS,RISE,RITE,RITS,SEIR,SEIS,SERS,SETS,SIES,SIRE,SIRS,SIST,SITE,SITS,SRIS,STIE,STIR,TIER,TIES,TIRE,TRES,TRIE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ERS,ESS,EST,IRE,ITS,REI,RES,RET,RIT,SEI,SER,SET,SIR,SIS,SIT,SRI,TES,TIE,TIS,

2-letter words (10 found)

ER,ES,ET,IS,IT,RE,SI,ST,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 77 words from sister according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sister

sister

Etymology

From Middle English sister, suster, from Old English swustor, sweoster, sweostor (“sister, nun”); from Proto-Germanic *swestēr (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr (“sister”).

Cognate with Scots sister, syster (“sister”), West Frisian sus, suster (“sister”), Dutch zuster (“sister”), German Schwester (“sister”), Norwegian Bokmål søster (“sister”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish syster (“sister”), Icelandic systir (“sister”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍂 (swistar, “sister”), Latin soror (“sister”), Russian сестра́ (sestrá, “sister”), Lithuanian sesuo (“sister”), Albanian vajzë (“girl, maiden”), Sanskrit स्वसृ (svásṛ, “sister”), Persian خواهر (xâhar, “sister”).

In standard English, the form with i is due to contamination with Old Norse systir (“sister”).

The plural sistren is from Middle English sistren, a variant plural of sister, suster (“sister”); compare brethren.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɪs.tə(ɹ)/
  • (General American) enPR: sĭs'tər, IPA(key): /ˈsɪs.tɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: cister
  • Hyphenation: sis‧ter

Noun

sister (plural sisters or (archaic in most senses) sistren)

  1. A daughter of the same parents as another person; a female sibling.
    Synonym: (slang) sis
    Antonym: brother
    Hypernym: sibling
  2. A female member of a religious order; especially one devoted to more active service; (informal) a nun.
    Synonym: nun
    Coordinate terms: brother, friar, frater
  3. Any butterfly in the genus Adelpha, so named for the resemblance of the dark-colored wings to the black habit traditionally worn by nuns.
  4. (British) A senior or supervisory nurse, often in a hospital.
    Synonym: charge nurse
  5. Any woman or girl with whom a bond is felt through the same biological sex, gender or common membership in a community, race, profession, religion, organization, or ism.
  6. (African-American Vernacular, slang, sometimes capitalized) A black woman.
  7. (informal) A form of address to a woman.
    Synonyms: darling, dear, love, (US) lady, miss, (northern UK) pet
  8. A woman, in certain religious, labour or socialist circles; also as a form of address.
  9. (attributively) An entity that has a special or affectionate, non-hierarchical relationship with another.
    Synonyms: affiliate, affiliated
  10. (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
  11. (usually attributively) Something in the same class.

Usage notes

  • In Roman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn (especially by members of female religious orders) between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.
  • The plural sistren is no longer commonly used for biological sisters in contemporary English (although it was in the past) but may be found in some religious, feminist, or poetic usage.

Coordinate terms

  • brother
  • brethren

Derived terms

Related terms

  • sororal
  • sistren
  • suster
  • sustah

Descendants

  • → Gulf Arabic: سِسْتَر (sistar, “female nurse”)
  • → Japanese: シスター (shisutā)
  • → Korean: 시스터 (siseuteo)

Translations

Verb

sister (third-person singular simple present sisters, present participle sistering, simple past and past participle sistered)

  1. (transitive, construction) To strengthen (a supporting beam) by fastening a second beam alongside it.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To be sister to; to resemble closely.

Translations

Further reading

  • Sister (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Sister in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Istres, Reists, reists, resist, resits, restis, risest

Middle English

Noun

sister

  1. Alternative form of suster

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English sister, syster, forms of suster influenced by Old Norse systir, from Old English sweostor, swustor, sweoster, from Proto-Germanic *swestēr, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɪstər]

Noun

sister (plural sisteris)

  1. sister

Derived terms

  • guid-sister

Source: wiktionary.org