6 letters · 9 points in Scrabble
verb come out into view, as from concealment
verb come out of
verb become known or apparent
originFirst attested in the late 16th century. Borrowed from Middle French emerger, from Latin ēmergō (“to rise up or out”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (“out, forth”)) + mergō (“to dip, to sink”)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0