SOFTA is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SOFTA is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOFTA?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOFTA is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOFTA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
softasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOFTA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOFTA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What does SOFTA mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A student of Islamic religious law and theology at a traditional Muslim school, especially in the Ottoman Empire, from the Turkish word for such a student.
A softa studied at a medrese, the traditional Islamic school attached to a mosque, working through years of instruction in the Quran, Arabic grammar and religious law before taking on any formal clerical role. Ottoman society ranked a softa below a fully qualified religious scholar, so the years spent as a softa marked a recognised stage of training rather than a finished career. Groups of softas occasionally stepped beyond the classroom into public life, joining street protests or political unrest in nineteenth century Istanbul when they felt religious law or tradition was under threat. The word entered English through Ottoman Turkish and now appears mainly in historical writing about Islamic education and Ottoman society.
How SOFTA is used
Historical term from Ottoman Turkish, used in English mainly when describing traditional Islamic religious education or Ottoman social history.
- A young softa spent hours each day memorising passages of the Quran.
- The medrese housed dozens of softas studying under a single senior scholar.
- Historians describe how softas marched through Istanbul during the unrest.
- He left his village to train as a softa in the capital.
- The old register listed every softa enrolled at the mosque school that year.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOFTA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOFTA
The 5 tiles of SOFTA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SOFTA
1 longer words begin with SOFTA.
Shorter words from the letters in SOFTA
Common questions about SOFTA
- Is SOFTA valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOFTA, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOFTA worth?
- SOFTA is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOFTA mean?
- A student of Islamic religious law and theology at a traditional Muslim school, especially in the Ottoman Empire, from the Turkish word for such a student.
- What letters can be added to SOFTA?
- SOFTA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOFTA:
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