Hidden inside cockering sit cockering and recocking, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 18 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cockering and recocking tie for the highest Scrabble score from cockering at 18 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cockering: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cockering itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cockering and recocking, each worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cockering. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is crocking, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cockering produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cockier and rocking. For points, the strongest play is cocking — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cockering turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignore, reckon, and region. For points, the strongest plays are cocker and recock — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cockering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are crick and crock — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cockering produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cock, coin and coke. For points, the strongest play is cock — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cockering turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ego and ice. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cockering. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and no. For points, the strongest plays are ki and ok — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in cockering and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
cockering is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cockering is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cockering unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cockering and recocking, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cockering earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cockering produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.