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Is case a Scrabble word?

Yes, case is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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What is the meaning of case?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (now rare) A given condition or state.Examples: "Thus vvhilſt he hopt he hild her leaſt, ſo altereth the cace / VVith ſuch as ſhe, Ah ſuch it is to build on ſuch a face."; "Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace."; "Mares which are over-fat, hold with much difficulty; whereas those that are but in good case and plump, conceive with the greatest readiness and ease."archaic

2. (academia) An instance or event as a topic of study.Examples: "The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies."; "He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record."

3. (law) A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.Examples: "“Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”"

4. (grammar) A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.Examples: "The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object."; "Latin has six cases, and remnants of a seventh."; "Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative case, as we see from: (16) (a) I know [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] (16) (b)   I demand [that they/*them/*their leave for Hawaii tomorrow] By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned Objective case, as we see from: (17)   I want [them/*they/*their to leave for Hawaii tomorrow] And the Subject of a gerund Clause is assigned either Objective or Genitive case: cf. (18)   I don't like the idea of [them/their/*they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]"

5. (grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.Examples: "Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages."; "Latin is a language that employs case."uncountable

6. (medicine) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.Examples: "There were another five cases reported overnight."; "We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer."Antonyms: noncase

verb (English)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To propose hypothetical cases.Examples: "Casing upon the Matter."intransitiveobsolete

noun (English)

1. (printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).historical

2. (typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.broadly

3. (poker slang) Four of a kind.slang

4. (US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.US

5. (mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

6. (UK, slang, obsolete) A counterfeit crown (five-shilling coin).Examples: "The price of a case (five shillings piece bad) from the smasher is about one shilling; an alderman (two and sixpence) about sixpence; a peg (shilling) about threepence; a downer or sprat (sixpence) about twopence."UKobsoleteslang

adj (English)

1. (poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.Examples: "He drew the case eight!"; "If he did have a bigger ace, I still had at least six outs — the case ace, two nines, and three tens. I could also have more outs if he held anything less than A-K."not-comparableslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.transitive

2. (transitive) To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.Examples: "The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle."transitive

3. (transitive, informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.Examples: "You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in."; "Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent."informaltransitive

noun (English)

1. (computing, software) computer-aided software engineering.

2. (manufacturing) coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "case"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "case"?

Scrabble
6 points
C3
A1
S1
E1
Words With Friends
7 points
C4
A1
S1
E1

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