Hidden inside incognitos sit cognitions and incognitos, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cognitions and incognitos tie for the highest Scrabble score from incognitos at 13 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in incognitos: one comes from rearranging its letters, and incognitos 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 cognitions and incognitos, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling incognitos 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 words are cognition and incognito, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incognitos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noticing. For points, the strongest plays are isogonic, noticing, and scooting — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in incognitos produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coining and costing. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including coining, costing and cogitos.
Unscrambling incognitos turns up 33 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onions. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including citing, cogito and cogons.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incognitos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, noons, onion, and sting. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cogon, coign and congo.
Rearranging the letters in incognitos produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cost. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling incognitos turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, goo and got. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in incognitos. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
incognitos 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 incognitos. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
incognitos is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing incognitos unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cognitions and incognitos, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from incognitos 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 incognitos produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 33 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.