SOS is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. SOS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 3 points in Scrabble and 3 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOS?
| 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 SOS is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOS
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOS scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SOS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 2 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What stands out about SOS
- SOS is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does SOS mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
Notes sung at the midpoint step of the sol-fa scale, the degree that falls between fa and la, counted together.
The note is written so, sol or soh depending on which teaching tradition you grew up in, and each spelling brings its own plural — sos, sols, sohs. Sos is the one that looks least like a word, which is why it surprises people who meet it in print rather than in a singing lesson. Written in capitals the same three letters are the distress call, and that is a different word with a different history.
How SOS is used
Plural only: one so, two sos. The other spellings take sols and sohs instead.
- The exercise runs up the scale and lands on two sos.
- She sang the sos flat and started the phrase again.
- The teacher marked the sos in red above the stave.
- Both sos in the line are held for a full beat.
- Sight-singing drills are mostly does, res, mis and sos.
- The choir came in on the sos and lost the beat.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOS and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SOS
10 longer words begin with SOS.
Words ending in SOS
Showing 24 of 50 words that end in SOS. Useful as a back hook: play SOS onto a word already on the board.
Words with SOS inside
Showing 24 of 57 words that contain SOS somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SOS are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOS
Common questions about SOS
- Is SOS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOS, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOS worth?
- SOS is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOS mean?
- Notes sung at the midpoint step of the sol-fa scale, the degree that falls between fa and la, counted together.
- What letters can be added to SOS?
- SOS takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SOS:
Open SOS in the Word Finder