COG is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. COG is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COG?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COG is to know. It scores 6 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in COG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,369.
What does COG mean in Scrabble?
noun
A tooth on a wheel that engages with another wheel.
Strictly a cog is the tooth and not the wheel, although everybody uses it for both. The phrase about being one in a machine is exact in a way most metaphors are not: it does necessary work and cannot be identified afterwards.
How COG is used
Countable: a cog, two cogs.
- A single broken cog stopped the whole mill.
- He described himself as a cog and meant it.
- The cog is the tooth rather than the wheel.
- Wooden cogs were replaced one at a time as they wore.
- Two cogs of the wrong pitch will not mesh at all.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COG and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COG
Showing 24 of 112 words that begin with COG.
Words ending in COG
3 words end in COG. Useful as a back hook: play COG onto a word already on the board.
Words with COG inside
Showing 24 of 210 words that contain COG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with COG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in COG
Common questions about COG
- Is COG valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COG, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COG worth?
- COG is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COG mean?
- A tooth on a wheel that engages with another wheel.
- What letters can be added to COG?
- COG takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of COG:
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