cogitate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cogitate is the highest-scoring word from cogitate, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cogitate — and it is cogitate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cogitate produces exactly one seven-letter word: cottage. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cogitate turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cattie and cottae, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic. For points, the strongest plays are attic, coati, cotta, octet, tacet, tacit, and tecta — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cogitate produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cage, coat, gate, goat, and taco. For points, the strongest play is cage — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cogitate turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age, ago, ate, cat, eat, and ego. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at, go, it, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cogitate and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cogitate 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for cogitate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cogitate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cogitate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cogitate, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cogitate 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 cogitate produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.