cohesion needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cohesion is the highest-scoring word from cohesion, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cohesion — and it is cohesion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohesion produces exactly one seven-letter word: cohesin. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohesion turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose, chosen, and inches. For points, the strongest plays are chines, chinos, chinse, choose, chosen, cohoes, inches, niches, and ochone — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohesion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chins, chose, coins, cones, noise, shine, and shone. For points, the strongest plays are chine, chino, chins, chons, chose, cohoe, cohos, echos, niche, and oches — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cohesion produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, coin, cone, cons, hens, hose, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are chin, chis, chon, coho, cosh, echo, ichs, inch, and oche — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cohesion turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen, his, ice, oho, one, and she. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohesion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, in, is, and no. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 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 cohesion 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.
cohesion 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for cohesion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cohesion is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohesion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cohesion, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cohesion 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 cohesion produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 13 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.