ache and each tie for the highest Scrabble score from ache at 9 points. The top 9 of 9 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in ache: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ache itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with each. For points, the strongest plays are ache and each — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ache 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.
ache 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 ache carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for ache. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ache is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ache unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ache and each, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ache 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 ache produce 9 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 2 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.