SOY is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. SOY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 5 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOY?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOY is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOY scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in SOY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,527.
What does SOY mean in Scrabble?
noun
A protein-rich bean, or the sauce made from it.
Soy sauce reached the West long before the plant did: it arrived with Dutch traders in the seventeenth century, and the crop itself was not grown here for another two hundred years. The word came into English through Japanese from Chinese.
How SOY is used
Uncountable. Common attributively — soy sauce, soy milk.
- A dash of soy does more than a spoonful of salt.
- Soy arrived as a sauce two centuries before it arrived as a crop.
- The label lists soy among the allergens.
- Dark soy and light soy are used for different things.
- Soy milk was made in China long before it was sold here.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of SOY
The 3 tiles of SOY in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with SOY
17 longer words begin with SOY.
Words ending in SOY
1 words end in SOY. Useful as a back hook: play SOY onto a word already on the board.
Words with SOY inside
3 words contain SOY in the middle. Words that start with SOY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOY
Common questions about SOY
- Is SOY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOY, where it scores 5 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOY worth?
- SOY is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 5 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOY mean?
- A protein-rich bean, or the sauce made from it.
- What letters can be added to SOY?
- SOY takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of SOY:
Open SOY in the Word Finder