9 letters · 18 points in Scrabble
originFrom Italian caffè macchiato (“stained coffee”), from macchiato (“stained, marked”), as the coffee is “marked” with a spot of milk. From Latin maculātus (“stained”), form of macula (“stain”). Cognate to English macula (“[dark] spot”), French maculé.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0