Hidden inside cotillion sit cotillion and octillion, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cotillion and octillion tie for the highest Scrabble score from cotillion at 11 points. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cotillion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cotillion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cotillion and octillion, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling cotillion produces exactly one eight-letter word: cotillon. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cotillion 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 coition and oolitic, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cotillion turns up 3 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotion. For points, the strongest play is coloni — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotillion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colon. For points, the strongest plays are cloot, colin, colon, conto, ionic, licit, lotic, nicol, ontic, and tonic — 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 cotillion produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cool, into, lion, onto, till, and toll. For points, the strongest plays are cion, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, colt, coni, cool, coon, coot, icon, loci, loco, otic, and toco — 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 cotillion turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ill, lit, lot, not, oil, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are col, con, coo, cot, loc, and tic — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotillion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are in, it, li, lo, no, oi, on, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cotillion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cotillion and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
cotillion 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 two senses for cotillion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cotillion is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cotillion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cotillion and octillion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cotillion 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 cotillion produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.