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COGNOMEN

8 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What COGNOMEN Means

  1. noun: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)“Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph”
  2. noun: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

COGNOMEN is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 O1 G2 N1 O1 M3 E1 N1.

Words Made From The Letters In COGNOMEN

79 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.

7 letter words (1)

6 letter words (6)

5 letter words (12)

4 letter words (19)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (11)

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