rich needs no unscrambling at all — the four-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rich is the highest-scoring word from rich, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one four-letter word uses the letters in rich — and it is rich itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rich produces exactly one two-letter word: hi. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in rich 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.
rich 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 rich carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for rich. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
rich is the only four-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rich unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rich, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rich 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 rich produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 four-letter word, 3 three-letter words and 1 two-letter word.