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Is soot a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word soot is a Scrabble US word. The word soot is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

S1O1O1T1

Is soot a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word soot is a Scrabble UK word and has 4 points:

S1O1O1T1

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Yes. The word soot is a Words With Friends word. The word soot is worth 4 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

OOTS,SOOT,

3-letter words (4 found)

OOS,OOT,SOT,TOO,

2-letter words (5 found)

OO,OS,SO,ST,TO,

You can make 11 words from soot according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of soot

soot

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English soot, soote, sote, sot, from Old English sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą (“soot”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). Cognate with dated Dutch zoet (“soot”), German Low German Soot (“soot”), Danish sod (“soot”), Swedish sot (“soot”), Icelandic sót (“soot”). Compare similar ō-grade formation the same Proto-Indo-European root in Old Irish suide (“soot”) and Balto-Slavic: Lithuanian súodžiai (“soot”), and Proto-Slavic *saďa (“soot”) (Russian са́жа (sáža), Polish and Slovak sadza, Bulgarian са́жда (sážda)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊt/, /suːt/
  • (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA(key): /sʉt/
  • (now dialectal) IPA(key): /sʌt/
  • Rhymes: -ʊt, -uːt
  • Homophone: suit (in some dialects)

Noun

soot (usually uncountable, plural soots)

  2. Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc.
    Synonym: lampblack

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Translations

Verb

soot (third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted)

  1. (transitive) To cover or dress with soot.

See also

References

Anagrams

  • Toso, SOTO, otos, soto, Oost, Soto, OOTS

Jawe

Verb

soot

  1. to grab, grip

References

  • André-Georges Haudricourt et Françoise Ozanne-Rivière, Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : pije - fwâi - nemi - jawe, Lacito - Documents, Asie-Austronésie 4, SELAF no. 212, Peeters, 1982

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English sōt, from Proto-West Germanic *sōt, from Proto-Germanic *sōtą.

Alternative forms

  • soeth, sood, soote, sot, sote, soth, soyte, suotte
  • sude, sute (Northern)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /soːt/

Noun

soot (uncountable)

  1. soot
Derived terms
  • sooty
Descendants
  • English: soot
  • Scots: suit, sute
  • Yola: zoot
References
  • “sọ̄t, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-14.

Etymology 2

From Old English swōt.

Adjective

soot

  1. alternative form of swete

Source: wiktionary.org