market: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 12 letter points · starts with M · ends with T
Meaning of market
noun
A gathering of people for the purchase and sale of merchandise, often periodic at a set time.
Example: The right to hold a weekly market was an invaluable privilege not given to all towns in the Middle Ages.
A relatively spacious outdoor or covered site where traders set up stalls, either temporarily or permanently or semi-permanently, and buyers browse the merchandise.
Example: This site on North Street used to be the market, until it was redeveloped.
Any physical store selling groceries, such as a grocery store or convenience store.
Example: Stop by the market on your way home and pick up some milk.
A group of potential or current customers for one's product.
Example: We believe that the market for the new widget will be the older homeowner.
Listed forms: markets.
Source: Wiktionary — market.
verb
- transitive
To make (products or services) available for sale and promote them.
Example: We plan to market an ecology model by next quarter.
- transitive
To promote for or as if for sale.
- transitive
To sell.
Example: We marketed more this quarter already than all last year!
- intransitive
To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
Listed forms: markets, marketing, marketed.
Source: Wiktionary — market.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for market.
noun
the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
- marketplace
- market place
noun
a marketplace where groceries are sold
- grocery store
- grocery
- food market
noun
the securities markets in the aggregate
- securities industry
noun
an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up
- marketplace
- market place
- mart
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is market in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of market
M(3) + A(1) + R(1) + K(5) + E(1) + T(1) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of market
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from market
63 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in market. Showing up to 24, longest first.