cohorts needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cohorts is the highest-scoring word from cohorts, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cohorts — and it is cohorts itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohorts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roots, shoot, and short. For points, the strongest plays are cohos, rotch, and torch — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cohorts produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cost, host and root. For points, the strongest plays are coho and cosh — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cohorts turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hot, oho, tho, and too. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohorts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh and or. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cohorts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cohorts 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.
cohorts 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 cohorts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for cohorts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cohorts is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohorts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cohorts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cohorts 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 cohorts produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.