Unscramble SOFTENING to get 265 words. SOFTENING itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are FENINGS and SOFTING, 11 points each. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from SOFTENING split into 1 with 9 letters, 10 with 7, 48 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 60 with 3 and 26 with 2. None has 8 letters.
6 of 48 6-letter words made with SOFTENING letters tie at 10 points; none scores more. TENNIS, FINEST and NOTING will look familiar.
Of the 60 5-letter words from SOFTENING, 6 score 9 points, the group's best. GIFTS, OFTEN and NOTES are the ones most people know.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SOFTENING; 6 of them share the top score of 8. INFO, GIFT and FINE are everyday picks.
Among 60 3-letter words made with SOFTENING letters, the top score is 7, reached by 4. NOT, GET and ITS are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of SOFTENING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with SO · ending in NG · all 9-letter words
The meaning of SOFTENING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. SOFTENING is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOFTENING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 265) | 191 | 264 | 166 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
73 of the 265 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SOFTING, FIENTS, FIGOS, FEGS, FENIS, FENTS, FIENT, FIEST, FIGO, FONES, NIEFS, NIFES and 61 more. 25 of the 265 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: FENINGS, FENING, GIFS, TIGNONS, FEST, GIF, STINGE, TIGNON, FES, GITES, GOEST, SINNET and 13 more. 1 of the 265 answers is missing from Scrabble US, Scrabble UK and Words With Friends*: FI.
Each word below uses all the letters of SOFTENING and one more.