Unscramble SOUGHING and you have 153 words, SOUGHING itself among them: it scores 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, GUSHING, HOGGINS and SUGHING lead with 12 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from SOUGHING split into 1 with 8 letters, 4 with 7, 6 with 6, 16 with 5, 54 with 4, 50 with 3 and 22 with 2.
HOGG scores highest among the 4-letter words from SOUGHING at 9 points, ahead of GHIS and GOSH on 8. SIGN, SONG and GUNS are the ones most people know.
Among 50 3-letter words you get when you unscramble SOUGHING, the top score is 7, reached by 4. SUN, SON and GUN are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of SOUGHING for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with SO · ending in NG · all 8-letter words
SOUGHING first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept SOUGHING, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUGHING itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 153) | 111 | 153 | 95 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOGGINS, HOGGIN, HONGIS, HINGS, HOING, HING, OGGINS, GINGS, HOIS, HUIS, HUSO, NISH and 30 more, 42 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: HONGI, SHOGI, HOS, IGGS, SHO, SOH, IGG, NUGS, GIS, GOS, NUG, SIG and 4 more, 16 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of SOUGHING spell the words below.