SOT is a valid Scrabble word — 3 points
Yes. SOT 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 SOT?
| 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 SOT is to know. It scores 3 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOT scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SOT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 842.
What does SOT mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
A habitual drunkard.
Sot meant a fool before it meant a drunkard, and the shift happened in the sixteenth century, which says something about what was expected of fools. It survives inside besotted, where the older sense is much closer to the surface.
How SOT is used
Countable: a sot, two sots. Chiefly literary.
- A sot in a play is a type and not a character.
- The word sot meant a fool before it meant a drunkard.
- Besotted is built on sot and keeps the older sense.
- Two sots propping up the same bar for forty years.
- Nobody has called anybody a sot in conversation for a century.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SOT
20 longer words begin with SOT.
Words ending in SOT
2 words end in SOT. Useful as a back hook: play SOT onto a word already on the board.
Words with SOT inside
Showing 24 of 134 words that contain SOT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with SOT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOT
Common questions about SOT
- Is SOT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOT, where it scores 3 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOT worth?
- SOT is worth 3 points in Scrabble and 3 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOT mean?
- A habitual drunkard.
- What letters can be added to SOT?
- SOT takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SOT:
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