French Lists
These are lists that players using the French lexicon and playing French tile values. Some lists parameters are the same as the English counterpart. In both, players are advised to learn 2 and 3 letter words, Q not U words, and vowel or consonant heavy words.
2 Letter Words
Words with two letters are useful for playing beside another word and scoring double points for that tile.
3 Letter words
Knowing three letter words will enable you to play along other words while making your play. Extending a word to three letters could also get you to a bonus square.
Q not U
A very useful set of words to learn are the words that contain a Q, but not a U.
Vowel Heavy
To make this list a word less than four characters long must have at least 75% vowels, and the rest must have at least 61% vowels. That means three letter words must have all vowels, and four letter words must have at least three. Seven letter words must have 5 vowels. Vowel issues can also be solved by searching in other screens for double or triple I's or double U's.
Consonant Dumps
To make this list a word must have more than 82% consonants, so any word less than six characters long with a vowel, is omitted. Of course, unlike the saying, the letter Y is always considered a consonant.
High Fours
The French version of High Fours includes all words beginning or ending with one of the French high value tiles, J, K, Q, W, X, Y, or Z. This set of words is important because bonus points are often separated by four tiles in Words with Friends™. By playing the high value tile on the 3L space, and reaching the 3W space, players can make the most of their tiles.
High Fives
The French version of High Fives includes all words beginning or ending with one of the French high value tiles, J, K, Q, W, X, Y, or Z. This set of words is important because bonus points are often separated by five tiles in Scrabble™. By playing the high value tile on the 3L space, and reaching the 3W space, players can make the most of their tiles.
Other French Lists
Another feature in Hoot that supports French play is the Conjugate option in the Combination menu, and the context sensitive Conjugate search. Hoot doesn't identify what words are French verbs, but players can search for words ending in ER, IR, and RE and see if they can be conjugated as regular verbs. You can also use a slide show of such words to see the subsearch Conjugate option. Only valid words are shown in the results.