6 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
noun a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
originBorrowed from Japanese 芸者(げいしゃ) (geisha, “artisan”), from Middle Chinese 藝 (MC ngjiejH, “art, craft”) + 者 (MC tsyaeX, “-er”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0