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MEET is a familiar word with a few distinct senses. It can mean an athletics or swimming competition, a gathering of riders, horses, and hounds, or the point where two trains pass on a single track. Its everyday shape is simple, but the word also has a compact set of anagrams and one-letter neighbors for word-game play.

MEET at a glance

• MEET is a four-letter word built from M, two E tiles, and T.
• Its Scrabble face value is 6 points: M contributes 3, while each other tile contributes 1.
• The three anagrams are METE, TEEM, and TEME.
• Fourteen words differ from MEET by one letter, including FEET, MEAT, MELT, and MEEK.
• The rhyme set includes STREET, SWEET, SHEET, and TWEET.

What does MEET mean?

A meet is a sports competition, especially one for track and field or swimming. You might also see the word for a gathering of riders, horses, and hounds. Those senses make MEET more than a generic synonym for a get-together: it can name a specific event.

In railway use, a meet happens when trains traveling in opposite directions share a single track and one waits in a siding for the other to pass. The definition also includes the plain sense of a meeting. That range is worth remembering if you are checking a clue rather than just counting tiles.

How does MEET score, and what can you form from it?

MEET scores 6 points before board bonuses. The M supplies 3 of those 6 points, exactly half the face value; the three remaining tiles add just 1 each. That makes the M the tile to protect or place on a premium square when the board allows it.

METE and TEEM are the recognizable rearrangements, while TEME is rarer, so check your game's word list before relying on it. The neighbors shift one tile at a time: FEET changes the first letter and MEAT the second. MELT swaps the third letter and MEEK the last.