mask
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
Noun 4 meanings
A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection.
“a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask”
That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.
Appearance, likeness.
A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade.
Verb 4 meanings
To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor.
To disguise as something else.
To conceal from view or knowledge; to cover; to hide.
To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French masque (“a covering to hide or protect the face”), from Italian maschera (“mask, disguise”), from (a byform of, see it for more) Medieval Latin masca, mascha, a borrowing of Proto-West Germanic *maskā, from which English mesh and mask (“mesh”) (below at Etymology 2) are inherited.
Similar and opposite words
MASK at a glance
MASK has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (M 3 + A 1 + S 1 + K 5) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,170 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with mask
All rhymes- TASK8
- FLASK12
- CASK10
- BASK10
- MULTITASK15
- DAMASK13
- UNMASK12
- FACEMASK19
- HASK11
- PHOTOMASK20
- SUBTASK13
- BERGOMASK18
One letter away
Keep going
Related lists
Looking for a different word?
Type the letters you have and the Finder shows every word that fits.