Hidden inside chase sit aches and chase, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aches and chase tie for the highest Scrabble score from chase at 10 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in chase: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chase itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chase. For points, the strongest plays are aches and chase — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chase produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cash, and each. For points, the strongest plays are ache, cash, and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling chase turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ash, has, sea, and she. For points, the strongest plays are ahs, ash, hae, has, hes, sha, and she — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chase. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, as, eh, ha, he, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, he, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
33 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in chase plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in chase and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
chase 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chase carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record seven senses for chase. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
chase is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chase unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aches and chase, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chase 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 chase produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.