Hidden inside cotillions sit cotillions and octillions, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 221 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cotillions and octillions tie for the highest Scrabble score from cotillions at 12 points. The top 10 of 221 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cotillions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cotillions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cotillions and octillions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cotillions turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are collision, colonitis, cotillion, cotillons, 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.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotillions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coitions, colistin, colonist, cotillon, isotonic, and stolonic, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cotillions produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lotions. For points, the strongest plays are coition, colitis, collins, oolitic, silicon, and solicit — 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 cotillions turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons and lotion. For points, the strongest plays are cloots, colins, coloni, colons, consol, contos, ionics, nicols, nostoc, tocsin, and tonics — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotillions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, colon, cools, lions, still, stool, and tolls. For points, the strongest plays are cions, clits, clons, cloot, clots, coils, coins, colin, colon, colts, conto, cools, coons, coots, icons, ionic, licit, locis, locos, lotic, nicol, ontic, scion, scoot, sonic, stoic, tocos, 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 cotillions produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cool, cost, into, lion, and list. For points, the strongest plays are cion, cist, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cols, colt, coni, cons, cool, coon, coos, coot, cost, cots, icon, loci, loco, locs, otic, scot, tics, 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 cotillions turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ill, its, lit, lot, not, and oil. For points, the strongest plays are cis, col, con, coo, cos, cot, loc, sic, soc, 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cotillions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, it, li, lo, no, oi, on, os, si, so, 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 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cotillions plus one additional letter.
cotillions 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 cotillions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cotillions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cotillions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cotillions and octillions, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cotillions 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 cotillions produce 221 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.