5 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
originCognate with Scots chork, from Middle English charken, cherkin, from Old English ċearcian, variant of cracian (“to resound, make an abrasive sound, crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn (“to crack, crackle; to shriek”). Doublet of chirk, crack, and crake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0