6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
originA metathetic form of burgh (“mound, settlement”) employed in a special sense; thus a doublet of it, borough, Brough, burr (“halo, brough”), burrow, and Bury. For the semantic development, compare German Hof (“brough, halo, nimb”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0