9 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
noun (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity
originBorrowed from Yiddish משוגעת (meshugas), from משוגע (meshuge, “crazy”), from Hebrew משוגע (meshugga`, “crazy”), from שׁוּגַּע (shugga‘, “be driven mad”), שִׁיגַּע (shigga‘, “drive mad”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0