Hidden inside cognition sit cognition and incognito, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cognition and incognito tie for the highest Scrabble score from cognition at 12 points. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cognition: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cognition 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 cognition and incognito, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cognition produces exactly one eight-letter word: noticing. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cognition produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: coining, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cognition turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are citing, cogito, congii and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cognition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cogon, coign and congo.
Rearranging the letters in cognition produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, into, noon, and onto. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including coin, cion and coni.
Unscrambling cognition turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, goo and got. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cognition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and it. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cognition plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cognition 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.
cognition 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for cognition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cognition is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cognition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cognition and incognito, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cognition 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 cognition produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.