master
MASTER meaning: someone with control over something; it scores 8 Scrabble points and has 7 anagrams.
Noun 4 meanings
Someone who has control over something or someone.
The owner of an animal or slave.
The captain of a merchant ship; a master mariner.
A male head of household.
Adjective 4 meanings
Masterful.
“a master performance”
Main, principal or predominant.
Highly skilled.
“master batsman”
Original.
Verb 4 meanings
To be a master.
To become the master of; to subject to one's will, control, or authority; to conquer; to overpower; to subdue.
To learn to a high degree of proficiency.
“It took her years to master the art of needlecraft.”
To make a master copy of.
Etymology
From Middle English maister, mayster, meister (noun) and maistren (verb), from Old English mǣster, mæġster, mæġester, mæġister, magister (“master”), from Latin magister (“chief, teacher, leader”), from Old Latin magester, from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s (as in magnus (“great”), also cognate of English much and mickle) + -ester/-ister (compare minister (“servant”)).
Similar and opposite words
MASTER is a common six-letter English word, with a frequency count of 95,131 and a frequency rank of 1,211. Its familiar sense is someone who has control over something. The spelling also has a tidy word-game profile: eight Scrabble points, seven anagrams, and a cluster of one-letter neighbours.
MASTER at a glance
- MASTER is six letters long and scores 8 points in Scrabble.
- M is worth 3 points; A, S, T, E, and R are each worth 1.
- Its 7 anagrams include STREAM and TAMERS.
- Changing one letter gives 18 neighbours, including MATTER and FASTER.
MASTER meaning and Scrabble score
MASTER means someone who has control over something or someone. The definition also gives a captain of a merchant ship, a master mariner, and a male head of household; the control sense is the clearest starting point for everyday reading. MASTER appears in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE.
On a Scrabble rack, M contributes 3 points, while A, S, T, E, and R each contribute 1, for an 8-point base score. Only M is worth more than 1, so the word's total comes from one stronger tile and five low-value ones. Check your game's word list once, since dictionaries can differ.
Which words rearrange from MASTER?
Seven anagrams use the same six letters: STREAM, TAMERS, MATERS, MATRES, TREMAS, RAMETS, and ARMETS. STREAM is the obvious everyday rearrangement; several others are less familiar, so don't assume an anagram is accepted just because it uses every tile.
MASTER has 18 one-letter neighbours, including MATTER, FASTER, EASTER, MISTER, and MUSTER. MATTER and FASTER each keep five letters in place and change one tile. For a rack swap, preserve the shared letters and test the changed position instead of rebuilding the word from scratch.
MASTER ends in R, a much broader clue than its 18 one-letter neighbours: 2,039 six-letter words end in R. Keep that ending in play when the other letters are unknown; for a one-tile change, the neighbour set is narrower.
MASTER rhymes with 12 words, including AFTER, BETTER, WATER, LATER, MATTER, and SISTER. A clue asking for MASTER meaning points first to control; a rack clue instead points to the seven anagrams.
Rhymes with master
All rhymes- AFTER8
- BETTER8
- WATER8
- LATER5
- MATTER8
- CENTER8
- CHARACTER16
- DAUGHTER13
- MINISTER10
- COMPUTER14
- LETTER6
- SISTER6
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