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COGS

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What COGS Means

COGS is a form of COG, which means:

  1. noun: a subordinate who performs an important but routine function“he was a small cog in a large machine”
  2. noun: tooth on the rim of gear wheel
  3. verb: roll steel ingots
  4. verb: join pieces of wood with cogs

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

COGS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 G2 S1.

Anagrams of COGS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In COGS

8 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

3 letter words (5)

2 letter words (3)

Longer Words Containing COGS

COGS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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