arch and char tie for the highest Scrabble score from char at 9 points. The top 8 of 8 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 four-letter words hiding in char: one comes from rearranging its letters, and char itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arch and char, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in char 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.
char 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 char carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record five senses for char. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
char is one of two four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing char unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arch and char, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from char 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 char produce 8 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 four-letter words, 3 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.