Hidden inside cohoes sit choose and cohoes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 45 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
choose and cohoes tie for the highest Scrabble score from cohoes at 11 points. The top 10 of 45 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cohoes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cohoes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choose. For points, the strongest plays are choose and cohoes — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cohoes produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hose, shoe, and shoo. For points, the strongest plays are coho, cosh, echo, and oche — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohoes turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho and she. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cohoes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cohoes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
cohoes is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
cohoes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are choose and cohoes, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cohoes 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 cohoes produce 45 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.