Hidden inside southing sit shouting and southing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 230 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shouting and southing tie for the highest Scrabble score from southing at 12 points. The top 10 of 230 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in southing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and southing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shouting. For points, the strongest plays are shouting and southing — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in southing produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosting and shotgun. For points, the strongest plays are gunshot, hognuts, hosting, housing, noughts, shotgun, shuting, thouing, tushing, and unsight — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling southing turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nights, sought, and things. For points, the strongest plays are hognut, hosing, nights, nought, oughts, shogun, sought, things, thongs, and toughs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, hints, hunts, night, ought, shout, and sight. For points, the strongest plays are ghost, goths, hongi, hongs, nighs, night, ohing, ought, shogi, sight, sough, thing, thong, thugs, and tough — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in southing produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, guns, guts, hint, hits, hogs, and host. For points, the strongest plays are ghis, gosh, goth, gush, hogs, hong, hugs, hung, nigh, shog, sigh, sugh, thug, and ughs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling southing turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with got, gun, gut, his, hit, hog, and hot. For points, the strongest plays are ghi, hog, hug, and ugh — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi, ho, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are hi, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in southing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in southing 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.
southing 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.
southing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing southing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shouting and southing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from southing 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 southing produce 230 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.