rise
rise is a valid 4-letter word worth 4 points in Scrabble and 4 points in Words with Friends.
What does rise mean?
Get up and out of bed.
Go up or advance.
Move to a better position in life or to a better job.
Rise in rank or status.
Come into existence; take on form or shape.
Increase in value or to a higher point.
Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance.
Become more extreme.
Come to the surface.
Move upward.
Rise to one's feet.
Exert oneself to meet a challenge.
“rise to a challenge”
“rise to the occasion”
Return from the dead.
“Christ is risen!”
“The dead are to uprise”
Rise up.
Increase in volume.
Come up, of celestial bodies.
“The sun also rises”
The act of changing location in an upward direction.
A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground.
An upward slope or grade (as in a road).
“the car couldn't make it up the rise”
The property possessed by a slope or surface that rises.
An increase in cost.
“they asked for a 10% rise in rates”
Increase in price or value.
A growth in strength or number or importance.
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
A movement upward.
“they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon”
The amount a salary is increased.