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.
Unscramble CSEA, SEAC or CEAS and you get the same 4 letters as CASE: so the words from CASE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
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.
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.