SOMAN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. SOMAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOMAN?
| 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: 30 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOMAN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOMAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
somansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOMAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOMAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about SOMAN
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SOMAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistrytechnical
An extremely toxic nerve agent, an organophosphorus compound developed for use in chemical warfare.
Soman belongs to the same family of nerve agents as tabun and sarin, all developed by German chemists around the Second World War and grouped by historians as the G-series agents. Like other nerve agents, soman blocks an enzyme the body needs to switch off nerve signals, so exposure makes muscles fire uncontrollably and can prove fatal within minutes without immediate treatment. The compound never saw large-scale battlefield use, but several militaries stockpiled it during the Cold War as part of wider chemical weapons programmes. The Chemical Weapons Convention now bans its production and storage, and soman today appears mainly in discussions of chemical weapons history and arms control.
How SOMAN is used
A specialist and historical term from chemistry, military history and arms control, describing a banned chemical weapon rather than an everyday substance.
- Historians traced how soman was first synthesised by German chemists during the war.
- The treaty specifically banned the production and storage of soman and related agents.
- Emergency responders train to recognise the symptoms of soman poisoning.
- Cold War stockpiles once included large quantities of soman alongside other nerve agents.
- The museum exhibit explained the chemistry behind agents such as soman and sarin.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOMAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOMAN
The 5 tiles of SOMAN in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with SOMAN
1 longer words begin with SOMAN.
Words with SOMAN inside
9 words contain SOMAN in the middle. Words that start with SOMAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOMAN
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Common questions about SOMAN
- Is SOMAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOMAN, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOMAN worth?
- SOMAN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOMAN mean?
- An extremely toxic nerve agent, an organophosphorus compound developed for use in chemical warfare.
- What letters can be added to SOMAN?
- SOMAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOMAN:
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