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MATCH

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

MATCH is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

MATCHES-es 5 MATCHING-ing 11 MATCHED-ed 5
noun
  1. A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet (commonly called a "bout"), a baseball game, or a cricket match.
    • My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
  2. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
  3. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
    • He knew he had met his match.
  4. A marriage.
  5. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
  6. Suitability.
  7. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
  8. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
  9. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
    • The carpet and curtains are a match.
    • a match made in heaven
  10. An agreement or compact.
  11. A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
  12. A small wooden stick specially treated with chemicals to produce flame upon contact with another chemical, from the frictional heat produced by striking it against a surface, or both; other similar items made from chemically-treated paper, cardboard, etc.
    • He struck a match and lit his pipe.
  13. obsoleteSynonym of taper, a thin stick used to transfer flame, as from tender to a candle.
  14. obsoleteSynonym of fuse, a long wick used to transfer flame to an explosive device.
verb
  1. intransitiveTo agree; to be equal; to correspond.
    • Their interests didn't match, so it took a long time to agree what to do together.
    • These two copies are supposed to be identical, but they don't match.
  2. transitiveTo agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
    • His interests didn't match her interests.
  3. transitiveTo equal or exceed in achievement.
    • She matched him at every turn: anything he could do, she could do as well or better.
  4. transitiveTo make a successful match or pairing.
    • They found out about his color-blindness when he couldn't match socks properly.
  5. obsoleteTo unite in marriage, to mate.
  6. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.
    • to match boards
  7. transitiveTo be an example of a rule or regex.
    • The behavior matched one or more rules and was rejected by an edit filter.