Hidden inside case sit aces and case, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 10 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aces and case tie for the highest Scrabble score from case at 6 points. The top 10 of 10 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in case: one comes from rearranging its letters, and case itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case. For points, the strongest plays are aces and case — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling case turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, sac, and sec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in case. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as. For points, the strongest plays are ae, as, and es — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
39 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in case plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in case and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
case is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twenty-two senses for case. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
case is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing case unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aces and case, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from case earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in case produce 10 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.