miss
Miss can refer to a failure to hit (or meet or find etc.) or a young female. As a verb, miss can mean to fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind, feel or suffer from the lack of, or fail to attend an event or activity.
Length
4
Scrabble
6
WWF
7
Starts
MI
Ends
ISS
Difficulty
Easy
Dictionary
What Does “MISS” Mean?
/mɪs/
miss has 11 documented senses across noun, verb.
Noun
2 sensesVerb
9 sensesfail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
“I missed that remark”
“She missed his point”
“We lost part of what he said”
Synonyms
feel or suffer from the lack of
“He misses his mother”
“They miss moving”
fail to attend an event or activity
“I missed the concert”
“He missed school for a week”
fail to reach or get to
“She missed her train”
Show 3 more verb definitions
fail to reach
“The arrow missed the target”
be absent
“The child had been missing for a week”
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
4
Vowels
1
Consonants
3
Word Intelligence
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Definition
a young female
Length
4 letters
Starts With
M
Ends With
S
Vowels
1
Consonants
3
Letters
M, I, S, S
Use Case
Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.
Letter Breakdown
Word Facts
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Word Strategy
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Scrabble Strategy
★★☆☆☆MISS has a Scrabble score of 6. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.
Wordle Strategy
★★☆☆☆MISS is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.
Crossword Strategy
★★★★☆MISS can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 4-letter structure.
Anagram Strategy
★★★☆☆MISS contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.
Letter Intelligence
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Unique Letters
3
Repeated Letters
1
Highest Value Letter
M
Letter Pattern
ABCC
CV Pattern
CVCC
Vowel Share
25%
Consonant Share
75%
Bigrams
MI, IS, SS
Trigrams
MIS, ISS
Crossword Intelligence
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