Hidden inside casque sit casque and sacque, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 25 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
casque and sacque tie for the highest Scrabble score from casque at 17 points. The top 10 of 25 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in casque: one comes from rearranging its letters, and casque itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are casque and sacque, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling casque turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, sea, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are qua and suq — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in casque plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in casque and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
casque 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for casque. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
casque is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing casque unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are casque and sacque, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from casque 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 casque produce 25 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.