Unscramble SOOTHING and you have 200 words, SOOTHING itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 12 points: SHOOTING. Among the shorter answers, 6 reach 11 points, HOSTING, HOOTING and OOHINGS among them. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
By length, the words from SOOTHING split into 2 with 8 letters, 8 with 7, 16 with 6, 37 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 20 with 2.
15 of 37 5-letter words from SOOTHING tie at 9 points; none scores more. NIGHT, THING and GHOST will look familiar.
60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SOOTHING; 10 of them share the top score of 8. SIGN, SONG and HOST are everyday picks.
GHI and HOG are the top 3-letter words from SOOTHING, 7 points each. NOT, ITS and TOO will look familiar.
Trade one tile of SOOTHING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with SO · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
The meaning of SOOTHING, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SOOTHING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOOTHING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 200) | 149 | 200 | 135 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
51 of the 200 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: OOHINGS, THINGOS, TOSHING, HONGIS, INSOOTH, THINGO, GOSHT, HINGS, HOING, THIGS, HING, HOONS and 39 more. 14 of the 200 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: GOTHS, HONGI, SHOGI, GOTH, HOO, HOS, SHO, SOH, GIS, GOS, SIG, GI and 2 more.
Each word below uses all the letters of SOOTHING and one more.