9 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
noun an ignorant person
originAfter the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0