mate (4 letters)
mate
6
- Length
- 4 letters
- Scrabble score
- 6 points
- Frequency
- Less common
- Pronunciation
- MAYT
What it means
- verb — engage in sexual intercourse
- verb — bring two objects, ideas, or people together
- verb — place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
- noun — the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- noun — a fellow member of a team
- noun — the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner)
- noun — a person's partner in marriage
- noun — an exact duplicate
- noun — one of a pair
- noun — South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea
- noun — informal term for a friend of the same sex
- noun — South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate
- noun — a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king