Hidden inside cosine sit conies, cosine, icones and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conies, cosine, icones and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cosine at 8 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in cosine: three come from rearranging its letters, and cosine itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are conies, cosine, icones, and oscine, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cosine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, noise, and since. For points, the strongest plays are cines, cions, coins, cones, cosie, icons, scion, scone, since, and sonic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cosine produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, ices, nice, nose, and once. For points, the strongest plays are cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, cons, ecos, ices, icon, nice, once, and sice — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cosine turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cos, eco, ice, sec, sic, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cosine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
28 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cosine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cosine 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.
cosine 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cosine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
cosine is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cosine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conies, cosine, icones, and oscine, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cosine 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 cosine produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.