SOOTY is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. SOOTY 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 SOOTY?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOOTY is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOOTY
No single letter turns SOOTY into another word.
How SOOTY scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOOTY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 56,018.
What does SOOTY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Covered with, stained by, or coloured like soot; blackish or dark grey, especially from smoke or coal dust.
A chimney sweep's sooty hands and a sooty fireplace both carry the fine black residue that settles after wood or coal burns incompletely, and the word extends naturally to anything stained the same dull black. Naturalists also use sooty as part of the ordinary name for birds and animals with mostly blackish or brownish black colouring, such as the sooty tern, without implying the creature is actually dirty. A sooty sky or a sooty industrial town describes air thick with smoke rather than a literal coating of ash. Cleaning away sooty deposits from an old chimney or engine is a familiar, grimy chore in both historical and modern accounts of industrial work.
How SOOTY is used
Common in everyday and descriptive writing for anything blackened by soot or smoke, and in the ordinary names of certain blackish birds and animals.
- The chimney sweep emerged covered in sooty grime.
- A sooty haze hung over the old factory town.
- She wiped a sooty smudge from the mantelpiece.
- The sooty tern nests in large colonies on remote islands.
- His sooty overalls needed a good wash after the shift.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOOTY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOOTY
The 5 tiles of SOOTY in a different order — 1 found.
Shorter words from the letters in SOOTY
Common questions about SOOTY
- Is SOOTY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOOTY, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOOTY worth?
- SOOTY is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOOTY mean?
- Covered with, stained by, or coloured like soot; blackish or dark grey, especially from smoke or coal dust.
- What letters can be added to SOOTY?
- No single letter can be added to SOOTY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOOTY:
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