Hidden inside soothing sit shooting and soothing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shooting and soothing tie for the highest Scrabble score from soothing at 12 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in soothing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and soothing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: shooting and soothing, worth 12 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in soothing produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hosting. For points, the strongest plays are hooting, hosting, and shooing — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling soothing turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nights and things. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including nights, things and hosing.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soothing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ghost, hints and night. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including ghost, night and sight.
Rearranging the letters in soothing produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gosh, hint and hits. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including gosh, hogs and ghis.
Unscrambling soothing turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with goo, got and his. For points, the strongest plays are ghi and hog — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in soothing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, hi and ho. For points, the strongest plays are hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in soothing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in soothing 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.
soothing 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 two senses for soothing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
soothing is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing soothing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shooting and soothing, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from soothing 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 soothing produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.