soothsay needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
soothsay is the highest-scoring word from soothsay, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in soothsay — and it is soothsay itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soothsay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosts, oaths and shoot. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including hasty, hooty and hoyas.
Rearranging the letters in soothsay produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahoy, hats and hays. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including ahoy, hays and ashy.
Unscrambling soothsay turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, ass and has. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including hay, shy and thy.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soothsay. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as and at. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including ah, ay and ha.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in soothsay plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in soothsay and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
soothsay 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
soothsay is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soothsay unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is soothsay, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from soothsay 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 soothsay produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.