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SOOTING

7 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What SOOTING Means

SOOTING is a form of SOOT, which means:

  1. noun: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  2. verb: coat with soot

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SOOTING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 O1 O1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In SOOTING

110 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (8)

5 letter words (13)

4 letter words (36)

3 letter words (37)

2 letter words (16)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.