8 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
noun a person who is member of one's class or profession
originFrom Old French confrere, from Latin confrāter. The word which was originally only used for the second sense became obsolete in the 17th century and reappeared in the mid 18th century as a re-borrowing of Modern French confrère whence the first sense is from.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0