cohesive needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cohesive is the highest-scoring word from cohesive, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cohesive — and it is cohesive itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cohesive produces 2 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 chevies and seviche, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cohesive turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with voices. For points, the strongest play is chives — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohesive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chose, shove, and voice. For points, the strongest play is chive — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cohesive produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eves, hose, ices, shoe, and vice. For points, the strongest plays are hive, hove, and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cohesive turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, his, ice, see, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohesive. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, ho, is, oh, and sh. 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 cohesive 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.
cohesive 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 two senses for cohesive. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
cohesive is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohesive unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cohesive, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cohesive 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 cohesive produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.