cotangents needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 427 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cotangents is the highest-scoring word from cotangents, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 427 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cotangents — and it is cotangents itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cotangents turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cotangent, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotangents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with constant. For points, the strongest plays are coagents, cognates, and cottages — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cotangents produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest and tangoes. For points, the strongest plays are coagent, cognate, congest, and cottage — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cotangents turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agents, cannot and gotten. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cogent, congas and conges.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotangents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, cages and cents. For points, the strongest plays are cages, conga, and conge — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cotangents produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ages and ants. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cogs, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cotangents turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, age and ago. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotangents. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
cotangents 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 4-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 cotangents. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cotangents is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cotangents unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cotangents, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cotangents 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 cotangents produce 427 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.