SOOTH is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SOOTH 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 SOOTH?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOOTH is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOOTH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOOTH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOOTH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What stands out about SOOTH
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 SOOTH mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
Truth or reality, especially in the old phrase in sooth, meaning in truth or truly; also, as an archaic adjective, true or genuine.
Older English speakers reached for sooth where a modern writer would simply say truth, and the phrase in sooth once served much the same purpose as truly or indeed does today, framing a statement as sincere or certain. Poets and playwrights kept sooth alive well after ordinary prose had dropped it, valuing its short, weighty sound in verse and dramatic speech. The same root survives more visibly in soothsayer, someone who claims to tell the truth about the future, showing how closely sooth was once tied to prophecy as well as plain fact. A modern reader meets sooth almost exclusively in older literature or in writing deliberately styled to sound archaic.
How SOOTH is used
Archaic and literary, met mainly in older poetry, drama and deliberately old-fashioned writing rather than current speech.
- In sooth, he had never meant to deceive her.
- The old play used sooth where a modern script would print truth.
- She spoke the sooth of the matter without flattery.
- The bard swore his tale was sooth from start to end.
- To say sooth, the plan had failed from the very beginning.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOOTH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOOTH
The 5 tiles of SOOTH in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with SOOTH
Showing 24 of 28 words that begin with SOOTH.
Words ending in SOOTH
2 words end in SOOTH. Useful as a back hook: play SOOTH onto a word already on the board.
Words with SOOTH inside
5 words contain SOOTH in the middle. Words that start with SOOTH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOOTH
Common questions about SOOTH
- Is SOOTH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOOTH, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOOTH worth?
- SOOTH is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOOTH mean?
- Truth or reality, especially in the old phrase in sooth, meaning in truth or truly; also, as an archaic adjective, true or genuine.
- What letters can be added to SOOTH?
- SOOTH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOOTH:
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