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muster

/ˈmʌstɚ/noun, verb

muster is spelled M-U-S-T-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, muster means “An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of muster is musters.

How many letters and syllables are in muster?

Letters6: M-U-S-T-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is muster?

Muster appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce muster?

  • UK /ˈmʌstə/
  • US /ˈmʌstɚ/
  • Australia /ˈmɐstə/

Muster has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-muster.ogg, En-au-muster.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with muster?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as muster from its last stressed vowel (/ʌstəɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of muster

  • musters plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • mustering participle, present
  • mustered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does muster mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An assemblage or display; a gathering, collection of people or things.

  2. 2

    An assembling or review of troops, as for parade, verification of numbers, inspection, exercise, or introduction into service.

  3. 3

    The sum total of an army when assembled for review and inspection; the whole number of effective men in an army.

  4. 4

    AustraliaA roundup of livestock for inspection, branding, drenching, shearing etc.

  5. 5

    obsoleteSomething shown for imitation; a pattern.

  6. 6

    obsoleteA sample of goods.

  7. 7

    obsoleteAn act of showing something; a display.

  8. 8

    A group of peafowl, storks or sometimes other birds.

  9. 9

    Synonym of mustee.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo show, exhibit.

  2. 2

    To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.

  3. 3

    To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.

    12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace–although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pir

  4. 4

    USTo enroll (into service).

  5. 5

    AustraliaTo gather or round up livestock.

  6. 6

    To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.

    I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Muster in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
GermanVersammlung, Ansammlung, Menge (any assemblage or display), Musterung, Inspektion (assembling or review of troops), Muster (something shown for imitation)
Spanishmuestra (any assemblage or display), revista (assembling or review of troops), modelo (something shown for imitation), exhibición (show; display), reunir, yuntar (to call or assemble together)
Frenchmodèle (something shown for imitation), battre le rappel (to call or assemble together)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does muster come from?

From Middle English musteren, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mostrer, Middle French monstrer, moustrer (whence the noun monstre, which gave the English noun), from Latin mōnstrō (“to show”), from moneō (“to admonish”). Cognate with French montrer (“to show”), Italian mostrare (“to show”), Spanish mostrar (“to show”). See also monster.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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