ane and nae tie for the highest Scrabble score from nae at 3 points. The top 7 of 7 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 three-letter words hiding in nae: one comes from rearranging its letters, and nae itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ane and nae, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
43 four-letter words can be made using all the letters in nae plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nae and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
nae 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
nae is one of two three-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nae unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ane and nae, worth 3 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from nae 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 nae produce 7 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.