Hidden inside sooths sit shoots and sooths, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shoots and sooths tie for the highest Scrabble score from sooths at 9 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sooths: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sooths itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shoots. For points, the strongest plays are shoots and sooths — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sooths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosts, shoot, and shots. For points, the strongest plays are hoots, hosts, shoos, shoot, shots, sooth, and soths — 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 sooths produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with host, shoo, shot, and toss. For points, the strongest plays are hoot, hoss, host, hots, oohs, shoo, shot, sohs, soth, and tosh — 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 sooths turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, oho, tho, and too. For points, the strongest plays are hoo, hos, hot, oho, ohs, ooh, 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sooths. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — 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 sooths and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
sooths 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for sooths. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sooths is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sooths unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shoots and sooths, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sooths 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 sooths produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.