SOOEY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SOOEY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOOEY?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOOEY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOOEY
No single letter turns SOOEY into another word.
How SOOEY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOOEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 28,009.
What stands out about SOOEY
- SOOEY runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SOOEY mean in Scrabble?
interjection
informalNorth American
A call used by farmers to summon or drive pigs, shouted repeatedly to get their attention.
Farmers shout sooey to bring pigs running toward feed or to move them from one pen to another, relying on a sharp, carrying sound that pigs learn to recognise over time. The call is usually repeated several times in quick succession, sooey, sooey, sooey, rather than said once. Beyond the farmyard, sooey is best known in the United States as the rallying cry of University of Arkansas sports fans, who borrowed the pig call as a chant for their teams. Outside these two settings, farm use and the sports chant, sooey rarely turns up in ordinary writing.
How SOOEY is used
Informal call chiefly used on farms to summon pigs, and, in the United States, as a well known sports chant.
- The farmer called sooey until the pigs came trotting to the trough.
- Fans shouted sooey together before the big game kicked off.
- She learned to call sooey from her grandfather on the farm.
- The pigs recognised the sooey call and pushed toward the gate.
- A long sooey echoed across the yard at feeding time.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOOEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in SOOEY
Common questions about SOOEY
- Is SOOEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOOEY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOOEY worth?
- SOOEY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOOEY mean?
- A call used by farmers to summon or drive pigs, shouted repeatedly to get their attention.
- What letters can be added to SOOEY?
- No single letter can be added to SOOEY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOOEY:
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