cohosh needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cohosh is the highest-scoring word from cohosh, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in cohosh — and it is cohosh itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohosh. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is hooch, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cohosh produces 5 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with shoo. For points, the strongest plays are coho and cosh — 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 cohosh turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oho and shh. For points, the strongest play is shh — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cohosh. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ho, oh, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cohosh 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.
cohosh 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 1-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 cohosh. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cohosh is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cohosh unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cohosh, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cohosh 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 cohosh produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 5 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.