Hidden inside south sit shout, south, and thous, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shout, south, and thous tie for the highest Scrabble score from south at 8 points. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in south: two come from rearranging its letters, and south itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shout and south. For points, the strongest plays are shout, south, and thous — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in south produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, shot, shut, thou, and thus. For points, the strongest plays are host, hots, huts, shot, shut, soth, thou, thus, tosh, and tush — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling south turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, out, and tho. For points, the strongest plays are hos, hot, hut, ohs, sho, soh, and tho — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in south. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, to, uh, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in south and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
south is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in south carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for south. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
south is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing south unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shout, south, and thous, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from south earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in south produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.