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Is cogency a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cogency is a Scrabble US word. The word cogency is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is cogency a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cogency is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

C3O1G2E1N1C3Y4

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Yes. The word cogency is a Words With Friends word. The word cogency is worth 18 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

COGENCY,

5-letter words (2 found)

CONEY,CONGE,

4-letter words (9 found)

CONE,CONY,ECCO,GOEY,GONE,GYNO,OCCY,ONCE,YGOE,

3-letter words (23 found)

COG,CON,COY,ECO,EGO,ENG,EON,GEN,GEO,GEY,GOE,GON,GOY,NEG,NOG,NOY,NYE,ONE,ONY,OYE,YEN,YGO,YON,

2-letter words (10 found)

EN,GO,NE,NO,NY,OE,ON,OY,YE,YO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 46 words from cogency according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cogency

cogency

Noun

cogency (countable and uncountable, plural cogencies)

  1. The state of being cogent; the characteristic or quality of being reasonable and persuasive.
    • 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Addison," in Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols (London), vol. 5, page 156:
      All the enchantment of fancy, and all the cogency of argument, are employed to recommend to the reader his real interest.
    • 1928, Richard McKeon, "Thomas Aquinas' Doctrine of Knowledge and Its Historical Setting," Speculum, vol. 3, no. 4 (Oct), page 444:
      A philosophic study of the development of philosophies should be content to seek out the bases and cogencies of philosophies rather than engage upon a nostalgic search for sympathetic doctrines.

References

  • cogency in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
  • “cogency”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “cogency”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)

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