cogitates needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cogitates is the highest-scoring word from cogitates, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in cogitates — and it is cogitates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitates. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cogitate and cottages, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cogitates produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cagiest and cottage, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cogitates turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attics. For points, the strongest plays are gestic and socage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cages, coast, coats, gates, goats, and stage. For points, the strongest play is cages — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cogitates produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages, cage, case, cast, cats, and coat. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cigs, cogs, and scag — each 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 cogitates turns up 68 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, at, go, is, it, so, 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 cogitates 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.
cogitates 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 cogitates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cogitates is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cogitates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cogitates, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cogitates 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 cogitates produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.