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Is miss a Scrabble word?

Yes, miss is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of miss?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (ambitransitive, physical) To fail to hit, catch, grasp, etc.Examples: "I fired the gun, but the bullet missed the target."; "I tried to kick the ball, but missed."; "She tried to grab hold of the end of the rope, but she missed."ambitransitivephysical

2. (ambitransitive, physical) To avoid hitting.Examples: "The driver swerved and just managed to miss the chicken crossing the road."ambitransitivephysical

3. (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.Examples: "The company missed all its sales targets."; "When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right."transitive

4. (transitive) To fail to experience, attend, partake, take advantage of, etc.Examples: "Joe missed the meeting this morning."; "I usually watch the Oscars Ceremonies, but I missed it this year."; "I'm starving! I missed breakfast this morning."transitive

5. (transitive) To avoid or escape.Examples: "The car just missed hitting a passer-by."; "We missed disaster by the skin of our teeth."transitive

6. (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret; to feel sadness at the absence of somebody or something.Examples: "I miss you! Come home soon!"; "I miss going for walks along the beach."; "I'm not going to the party, but I don't think I'll be missed."transitive

noun (English)

1. (informal) Someone or something whose loss or absence is felt.Examples: "Top striker Smith is out injured and will be a big miss for United."informal

2. (computing) The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.Examples: "Already we're seeing fewer cache misses by avoiding creating cache entries for the idle task and expect to see even fewer with changes to the TLB reload code to uncache the page tables."

3. (snooker) A foul shot that fails to hit the target ball, where the player has, in the referee's judgement, not made every effort to play a legal shot; in addition to conceding points for the foul, the player can be made to play the shot again.

4. (obsolete) Error, fault; misdeed, wrongdoing, sin.obsolete

5. (obsolete) Hurt or harm from a mistake or accident.obsolete

6. (obsolete) Loss, lack want; hence, the feeling of loss.obsolete

noun (English)

1. (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.countableuncountable

noun (English)

1. A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.Examples: "Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?"; "She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man."datedregional

2. A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status.Examples: "Good morning, Miss. May I help you?"dated

3. (often disparaging or sarcastic) Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.Examples: "Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there."derogatoryoftensarcastic

name (English)

1. (law) Mississippi, as used in case citations.

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "miss"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "miss"?

Scrabble
6 points
M3
I1
S1
S1
Words With Friends
7 points
M4
I1
S1
S1

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