cogitation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cogitation is the highest-scoring word from cogitation, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cogitation — and it is cogitation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cogitation produces exactly one eight-letter word: citation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cogitation 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 catting, coating, cotinga, and octagon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cogitation turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acting, action, and cotton. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including acting, agonic and citing.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, giant, and tango. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including acing, cogon and coign.
Rearranging the letters in cogitation produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin and gain. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including coat, coin and taco.
Unscrambling cogitation turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ago and ant. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cogitation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and go. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cogitation plus one additional letter.
cogitation 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 3-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 cogitation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cogitation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cogitation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cogitation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cogitation 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 cogitation produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.