7 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun French educator who lost his sight at the age of three and who invented a system of writing and printing for sightless people (1809-1852)
noun a point system of writing in which patterns of raised dots represent letters and numerals
verb transcribe in braille
originBorrowed from French braille, named after French educator Louis Braille (1809–1852). The /eɪl/ seems to reflect a spelling pronunciation; French has /aj/ instead.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0