7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
originFrom Middle English gryppel, from Old English *gripel, *grēpel, diminutive of Old English grep, grēpe (“furrow, ditch, drain”), equivalent to grip + -le (diminutive suffix). Cognate with German Low German Grüppel (“ditch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0