monitor: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 9 letter points · starts with M · ends with R
Meaning of monitor
noun
Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
Example: The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
Example: The information flashed up on the monitor.
A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
Listed forms: monitors, monitour.
Source: Wiktionary — monitor.
verb
- transitive
To watch over; to guard.
Listed forms: monitors, monitoring, monitored, monitour.
Source: Wiktionary — monitor.
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 monitor.
noun
someone who supervises (an examination)
noun
someone who gives a warning so that a mistake can be avoided
noun
display produced by a device that takes signals and displays them on a television screen or a computer monitor
- monitoring device
noun
any of various large tropical carnivorous lizards of Africa and Asia and Australia; fabled to warn of crocodiles
- monitor lizard
- varan
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is monitor in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of monitor
M(3) + O(1) + N(1) + I(1) + T(1) + O(1) + R(1) = 9 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 monitor
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 monitor
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