Unscramble ONCOST and you have 57 words, ONCOST itself among them: it scores 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. ONCOST has 2 anagrams here, CONTOS and NOSTOC, scoring 8 like ONCOST itself. The best shorter words score 7: 6 of them, CONTO, SCOOT and COOTS included. 6 letters: 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from ONCOST by length: 3 with 6 letters, 9 with 5, 20 with 4, 18 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of ONCOST but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with ON · ending in ST · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with CONTOS and NOSTOC (8 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
In Scrabble, yes: ONCOST is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ONCOST itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 57) | 45 | 57 | 40 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
12 of the 57 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ONCOST, COOST, TOCS, OONTS, TOC, ONST, OONS, OONT, OON, OOS, OO and ST. 5 of the 57 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: TOCOS, TOCO, SOC, ONOS and ONO.
Each word below uses all the letters of ONCOST and one more.