5 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
originFrom Middle English kive, from Old English cȳf (“vat”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūbiju, a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūbaz, perhaps from Latin cūpa. Related to French cuve. Doublet of coupe, cup, and hive.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0