Hidden inside cognates sit coagents and cognates, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coagents and cognates tie for the highest Scrabble score from cognates at 11 points. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cognates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cognates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coagents and cognates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cognates produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are coagent, cognate, and congest — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cognates turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, oceans, and tangos. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cogent, congas and conges.
There are 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cognates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, cages and cents. For points, the strongest plays are cages, conga, and conge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cognates produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages and ants. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cogs, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cognates turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ago. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cognates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in cognates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cognates 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.
cognates 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 five senses for cognates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cognates is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cognates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coagents and cognates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cognates 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 cognates produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.