6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
noun approval
noun money available for a client to borrow
noun an accounting entry acknowledging income or capital items
originBorrowed from Middle French crédit (“belief, trust”), from Latin crēditum (“a loan, credit”), neuter of crēditus, past participle of crēdere (“to believe”). The verb is from the noun. Doublet of shraddha, creed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0