Is COG a Scrabble word?
Yes. COG is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends.
Meaning A tooth on a gear.
Noun 4 meanings
A tooth on a gear.
A gear; especially, a cogwheel.
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
“just a cog in the machine”
A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
Verb 4 meanings
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Of an electric motor or generator, to snap preferentially to certain positions when not energized.
To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.
“1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.”
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English cogge, from Old Norse *kogge, *koggr (see Old Swedish kogge, kogger), from Proto-Germanic *kuggō (“cog, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *gugā (“hump, ball”), from *gēw- (“to bend, arch”). Compare Lithuanian gugà (“pommel, hump, hill”).
COG at a glance
COG has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + G 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #27,710 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -COG
More endings- INCOG8
- SCOG7
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