Hidden inside cohered sit cohered, derecho, and ochered, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cohered, derecho, and ochered tie for the highest Scrabble score from cohered at 13 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cohered: two come from rearranging its letters, and cohered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cohered, derecho, and ochered, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohered turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cheder, chored, echoed, and ochred, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer and chore. For points, the strongest plays are chord and eched — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cohered produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, the strongest plays are eche, echo, and oche — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohered turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, red, and rod. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, eh and he. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, ho, and oh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cohered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cohered and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cohered 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in cohered carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
cohered is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cohered, derecho, and ochered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cohered 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 cohered produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.